I need to write tomorrow’s post today, although by the time you read this, today will be yesterday and tomorrow will be today (I think I just wandered into Lewis Carroll territory there). I am struggling to come up with a topic for this post. Usually when this happens, I peruse my RSS feeds to see if anything sparks an idea. But, I did that and nothing came to mind. I am in the process of reading 3 books, so I could write about any or all of them, except that I have a bit of a problem. I have a cat on my lap.
I know a lot of cat people (myself included) who have a very hard time displacing a cat, especially one that is sleeping. Even if that cat has been asleep for several hours. My husband used to give me a hard time about my hesitance to displace a cat. Then I caught him sitting under the same cat for 4+ hours. We now refer to having a cat on one’s lap as “being colonized.” That seems to capture the semi-permanence of the situation.
Our cats certainly do not suffer from insomnia, so it is not like I worry that my cat will lose sleep if I wake him up to displace him. So why do I find it so difficult to do? I think the problem is two-fold.
There is a reason that the Egyptians worshiped cats. There is something god-like about them. And even though I have had cats for the better part of the past 25 years, I still feel flattered when one deigns to pay attention to me. I feel like I am disrespecting a cat when I remove him/her from my lap. And the dirty look my cats have always given me when I displaced them just reinforces that impression.
We had a dog for several months once and we were constantly flustered by how eager she was to always be with us. We were so used to be the worshipers we were just too uncomfortable being the worshiped.
The second reason is Newton’s law of inertia which states that there is a natural tendency of objects to keep on doing what they are doing. Successfully battling my own inertia is one thing. Conquering both my own and my cats’ inertia is difficult to do. The fact that they are so goram cute doesn’t help matters either.
However, I did manage to come up with a blog post without having to get up to look for ideas. I consider that a win all around.