On the morning of my CT, I awoke early to drink some black coffee (allowed) before ingesting the 2 bottles of dye (barium sulfate) that would be used for my contrast imaging. It was vanilla flavored, so it was almost like have a vanilla cappuccino… no, not really.
The night before, the daughter of one of my wife’s close friends, brought her husband by to remove a living room suite from our house. We were going to replace it with the one purchased for a condo in Kentucky believing that I was going to up there for 3-5 years which did not actually go according to our plans… but, that’s another story.
As I sat drinking my coffee, I noticed our 3 cats curiously contemplating the emptiness of the living room, somewhat mystified by the missing objects that they thought were there before.
Are we like my curious cats contemplating the removal of a life style we thought we had before? And, like my cats, do we simply walk around curiously contemplating the emptiness, knowing our innocent chirping will do nothing to return our past to us.
But, is it the past for which we long or the security the past afforded us and our families?
Have we, as a society, become as helpless as my 3 curiously contemplating cats, merely walking around chirping at the emptiness… curious about we see and not really understanding its new implications?
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One difference between cats and mankind is that cats can only know the now where man can anticipate a change in the future. So now you can make a distinction between waiting and expecting. Waiting is not something any animal likes, including man. But where man has the advantage over the cats is that he has the ability to anticipate positive change in the future. It is of my opinion that mannkind has the ability to see beyong the current so as to work for positive change. The difference between mankind now a just a few years ago is the dependance upon instant gratifcation, waiting for something to happen; the next stimulation. We are too wrapped up in the present and what is happening now and what will give us our next fix. We then become agitated and try to find blame when we only look at the present because we rapidly tire of waiting. Had we developed expectations and used our human ability to dream and anticipate, we would become more patient and more at peace with each other and ourselves.
Well, Alex, there goes your humorous take on the cats and the missing furniture.
Wow... I had no idea I said all of that. I was just wondering if others miss stuff like cats seem to do...
I also wonder why toilet paper does not tear where it is peforated.
Wait till you put some new furniture in that room. It will be a whole different ball game to those cats. It will be like "WTF?" They will of course have to check out all that scary new stuff :-) P.S. You're buying the wrong kind of TP if it doesnt tear at the perforations. Pretty sure your cats can show you how to do it :-)
Sorry, I was responding to the closing question about we as a society. I can't answer for cats, a species I have never figured out. Nor have I mankind, but this much I know. I remember the days when we looked forward to something and especially something major like new furniture. In those days the getting there was half the fun. Now it seems all of society does not want to wait. They want everything now.
As for toilet paper not tearing where perferated it is another corporate gymic to get us to consume more. The deeper perferations are every third or fourth vs each segment, with the ones in between not being as deep, so that they dictate where you tear and how much you use. The same trick is done with paper towels. Try to tear off one and you get two? Yup! They got us with every trick in the book.
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