Sleeping Cats and Ponderings On My Life

[misscam]

I've realised how much I've missed my darling cat. I'm housesitting for the parents who are in Denmark, and really, my main job is looking after the cat. He's been sleeping on the couch while I've been watching telly (Discovery. There were even baby wombats) and occasionally awoken to nibble food and wash himself. You'd think he didn't need me there, but he will actually follow me if I change room and then find another spot near me to snooze. He's a very social little thing. He does snore a bit, though. Still, he leaves an uncomplicated sort of life. I sometimes envy him. Having such a barin as we humans do is a blessing and a curse both, me thinks. It's harder for us to live in the moments and simple pleasures. And the wars we wage upon each other are can make anyone wonder what good our brain does us in the end.

But we all have to do the best with what we're given, ne? And the human brain is neither good nor bad, but has the capacity to be both in the same lifetime. And petty. I can feel my own brain battling the urge not to be petty every day, today included. I sometimes lose, I think. I worry about the paths I might walk, where they might lead and how dark the shades of grey will be. In about three weeks I will be twenty-five. (Maybe I'm halving a halfway-to-mid-life-crisis.) Where will I go from there? Will I one day awaken to (to quote a Swede) "all these days that passed, I did not realise them to be life"? Should I live my life to some greater purpose or just live it for myself?

Cats don't worry about these sorts of things. They are born and they died and what they live inbetween is simply life. And I'm left pondering if my life will be good or bad, if I will be gentle or petty and what I might do if the world was in my palm.

But then I think that all I will do will come to ashes. Nothing is forever, not even stars. And thus in the end will not not what I lived have been simply life, my life?

I probably snore a bit sometimes too.

Meme spotted around:

Ask me four questions. Any four, no matter how personal, private or random.

I will answer them honestly. I have to answer them all.

In turn, you post this message in your own journal and you have to answer the questions that are asked of you.

Comments

[honorh.livejournal.com]

From one fanfic university course coordinator to another: have you ever wanted to just pawn off OFUM on someone else and be free of the whole business?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

On occasion, when I get fed up with it all. But I'd just worry too much about what someone else might do with it to actually pawn it off.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

I have only one thing to say to that.

Do the best you can with your life. Follow your own moral compass, within reason, and simply do the best you can in life, whether it be good or bad.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. But that doesn't mean we don't occasionally pause and consider where we're going or stop worrying. In fact, the day I stop worrying about going dark places and doing bad is probably the day I really should worry.

Food for thought!

[jakie-f.livejournal.com]

What, in your opinion, is the meaning of life?

If offered a chance to take over the job of leader of your country, would you do it?

How far would you go to get what you wanted?

Do the ends justify the means?

Re: Food for thought!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

To live a life that mattered to yourself.

I'd think about it very careful and then - yes, I would take it.

To where I could still live with myself and no further.

No.

[undeadgoat.livejournal.com]

Why are boys stupid?

Elephants or quiche? Why or why not?

Why do you weep?

What are these tears upon your face?

[siraj.livejournal.com]

Cross that bridge when you come to it. For now, just live life.


That's all any of us can do in the end, after all.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Because they occasionally use the stupider parts of their brain.

Quiche. Because Rimmer says so.

I weep because the world is sometimes a cruel place.

They're water from my eyes.

[mademoisellenon.livejournal.com]

Cats snore? You saw baby wombats? *sniff* Videotape it next time and mail it to me. Maybe I should start watching Discovery again. Kitty sounds adorable. Perhaps I wouldn't be allergic to your cat.

I had a crisis when I turned 20 last October. I was howling that responsibility and maturity and gray hair were approaching. Remember? Heee!

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

1. If you started a newspaper, what would you call it? (And if the name is in Norwegian, please translate -- I'm all Googled out ;))

2. If journalism had nothing to do with your future or line of work, what would you want to do for a living?

3. If you could live any day of your life over for whatever reason (and assume you aren't following some philosophy or logic like "The past is the past and we should move on from it instead of trying to change it"), which day would it be and why?

4. Favorite line from a song?

(Retaliation can be done here if you want, but retaliation is not required.)

[elenculda.livejournal.com]

Hrm, there might be more to cats than meets the eye. They have got nine lives, you know. There's got to be some purpose in that. ;)

[siraj.livejournal.com]

1. How long do you plan on doing OFUM?

2. Any other projects in the works?

3. What other plans do you have for your future?

4 What did you want to be when you grew up?

[puredeadthingy.livejournal.com]

I wonder what would happen if we had our brains but not opposable thumbs.

-Why do bullies exist?
-Why is Situation Ethics difficult?
-What is your lifetime goal?
-Where did the OFUM idea come from?

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Damn those twenty-something not-quite-midlife crises! Believe me, I know what you are talking about... But it is probably just like John Lennon said: “Life is what’s happening while you are waiting for something to happen.” And its meaning is 42.

Hm, four questions (even though curiosity killed the cat, as they say):

 Who is your current Tolkien-related lust object?
 Have you ever written fangirlish badfic yourself?
 If you did, where can we find it online? ;)
 What was the most embarassing thing that ever happened to you?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. How is that grey hair coming?

There were lots of little baby wombats and baby possums, too. And a joey.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. Gee, tricky one. Probably "Nordlyss" (Northern lights") even if such a paper already exist.

2. Work in the foreign service

3. I'd relive walking around Uluru with my mum.

4. "We can weigh all the tears in one hand
Against the laughter in the other."

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so they have more lives to look cute.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. Until it feels ended.

2. Yes.

3. To do various rather dull work and get experience until I can get a job in the foreign service or charitable organisations.

4. A detective.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

- Because some solve their insecurities by making other feel even more insecure than them.

- Because if ethics get too fluid, they can be washed away alltogether.

- To die old and feeling like I would do my life all over again.

- Beta'ing a badfic. It sparked in me a desire that people should have a degree before unleashing fanfic upon the world.

[adoraheatherly.livejournal.com]

*reminds self to behave*

1.) What would you say is people's most common misconception about you?
2.) Sum yourself up in a quote.
3.) If I were in Norway, where is the first place you would take me?
4.) Boxers or briefs?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Faramir, of course.

Yes.

You can't, not the worst of it. It exists only password protected on my computer.

I was shown on national television wearing red longjohns and a pink Minnie Mouse sweater.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. That I'm actually not nice at all.

2. "She does not see the same world you and I see. In her world we are better than we are; we care more than we care; we act towards each other with compassion."

3. I'd take you out on a clear winterevening to Nordmarka and show you the silence of beauty of winter. And I'd teach you how to ski.

4. Briefs.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I was shown on national television wearing red longjohns and a pink Minnie Mouse sweater.

°_° I know that I have already asked my four questions, but -- how? And why?

[arabel.livejournal.com]

I think that cats may be some sort of philosphical generator. Whenever I look at my housemate's cat doing precisely those same things, similar questions and ideas wander through my head.

But then I think that all I will do will come to ashes. Nothing is forever, not even stars. And thus in the end will not what I lived have been simply life, my life?

I probably snore a bit sometimes too.

And a hearty "Word" to that. Even the last bit. Whilst being able to analyse our actions and feelings can be a blessing, it can be so easy to get caught up in the details and possible consequences. Sometimes you have to remember things like what you've said above, I think.

[greyladybast.livejournal.com]

*sniffle* That was lovely.

Bast

[belegcuthalion.livejournal.com]

Two nights ago, we allowed our vistor cat (a large, awesome beautiful, jet black Bagheera) to stay inside for the very first time. And she jumped on the bed and rolled to a soft ball on my legs and later beside my hand when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall asleep again because of a unnerving cough and a stuffed nose. I buried my fingers in her fur and listened to her constant purring... peaceful and calming at the same time.But I wouldn't want to live the life of a cat.

And I stubbornly refuse to accept that there will be nothing left when I go one day. But it's good to stop from time to time, remembering that you are mortal. Sometimes this gives you the change of POV you urgently need.

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

1. What is your favorite food?
2 If you were to get a cat today, what would you name it? If in Norwegian, please translate.
3. What's your favorite breed of dog?
4. Do you have a CSI-related lust-object? If so, who?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was 11 and my dad had decided to leave his minister post basically because he felt it took him away from us kids - and thus the biggest national broadcaster followed him home that day and I - who saw dad's enter the garage - opened the door excitedly to greet him home in the aforementioned dressup. It was only then I saw he had TV cameras following him.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Maybe cats have an aure of philsophy about them, or something.

Yeah, sometimes remembering the simple things is most complicated of all. We get caught up in the big questions and forget the simple truths. They vanish in the clouds of worry. Bu while it can be good to worry, it's not good to worry all the time.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I think in one way we all dream of immortality or immortality for our names. But stars die, galaxies die, names die - all we know is in the end mortal. Yet the molecules that shape us and the stars alike, they do linger on in a sense. Perhaps that is how we are all immortal.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. Lasagne

2. I already have a cat, but if I ever had another and it was black, I'd name it Saganatt. Saga is an epic tale and "natt" means night.

3. Norwegian elkhound

4. Grissom's brain in Warrick's body. Hello!

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

Now that would be quite the lust object!

I used to have a Norwegian elkhound. When my parents moved to Moscow, Lily and I moved in with some family friends. I've since gone off to college, but Lily, now a rather elderly dog, is still enjoying retirement down in North Carolina, hoping it will snow.

[silvery-lass.livejournal.com]

Wish my cat could take a nap right now.

1) Your favorite place in the world?
2) What was your very first fandom?
3) If the world would end tomorrow how would spend your day?
4) Your all time favorite book?

[aervir.livejournal.com]

What a cute way to get your proverbial Fifteen Minutes of Fame! And the outfit is easy to pardon at the tender age of eleven. :)

[furrybanana.livejournal.com]

Ha ha. You poor thing.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Would have been nice to have those fifteen minutes in clothes that didn't make people blind, though.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Nice to see my misfortunes cheered up someone's day :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Aw.

Our neighbours way back when had a Norwegian elkhound named Egil. I used to walk him quite a lot. He was adorable.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

1. Tromsø, Norway.

2) Star Trek: Voyager

3) With those I loved. And shagging all those male friends I find attractive, but wouldn't sleep with because it would ruin friendships I value.

4) A Little Love Song

[adoraheatherly.livejournal.com]

Briefs? Like tighty whities?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

No, lacy blackies ;)

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

What matters to you most?

Would you rather star-gaze or enjoy the rain?

Which virtue is the most important?

Did you lie when you were seventeen?

[adoraheatherly.livejournal.com]

Much better. :)