We had actually gone there was to be cats ourselves: to do precisely what we felt like doing whenever we felt like doing it. We roamed the streets, we sat in sunny cafe windows. We hung out at an onsen, which cats would probably not do.
Cats really can do what they like. In school, when exam time came around, I would stare enviously at our cats, doing whatever they felt like instead of studying.
I got a dissertation. Even then, Spike was superior. Manitou, a lean tabby we had fostered for some months. When we had to give her back, a small boy watched us from the balcony.
#cats-as-symbols-of-freedom #contrasting-human-constraints #cultural-observations #relationship-with-pets
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