An Either Or Kind of Thing

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Very cool story. I enjoyed it alot.

 

I don't for a moment think the cat delayed you in order to let you get the

package a bit earlier than you would otherwise have done, but it is cool

that it worked out that way.

 

Your interpretation of the story -- that the cat had some purpose in

delaying you -- makes a couple of common mistakes. One is to link the

events. Two is to ascribe knowledge and purpose to the cat.

 

Still, when looked at holistically, it was obviously in the pattern to

happen that way.

 

 

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 03:25 AM, (AT) (DOT)

com wrote:

 

> Message: 8

> Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:53:02 -0000

> " Oneiro " <tentaclesofdoom

> Animal guide

>

> Today I had a reminder of how our animal brethren definately do talk

> to us in their own way.

>

> I don't want to sound all airheaded (but I will), so many times odd

> things have happened where animals have acted almost as omen and

> guide. I guess I see how the Native Americans put a lot of store in

> animal totems and guides (though I don't know that much about it).

>

> As I was driving to work this morning a tabby cat deliberately

> sauntered across a nearby road and then STOOD there contemptuously in

> the middle of it. Obviously I stopped and waited, I tried to shoo it

> out of the road with telepathy (which unsurprisingly didn't work).

>

> It was all a little surreal, and eventually just as I was about to

> give up and get out the car to speak to the cat it flicked it's head

> scornfully at me (in that loveable way cats do) and sauntered off the

> road.

>

> I watched it in case it was stray as it looked a little void of

> course. The postman suddenly came into view near the corner house, he

> looked rather incredulous at what was going on - and as soon as the

> cat saw the postman it leaped over the wall and was gone.

> The postman signalled at me and for some reason I felt guilty - as

> though he might think I was a bit strange for sitting there staring

> at this cat, I waved my arms to signify denial and yelled " it's not

> my cat! " but he came skipping up to the car anyway.

>

> Turned out he had a parcel for me to sign for, whoo hoo!

> He'd rung the bell an hour before but I'd been in the shower so I

> couldn't answer it.

>

> That cat managed to delay me just long enough otherwise I would just

> have driven past him and would have had a long trip to the mail depot.

>

> Thank you that cat, my lucky messenger.

>

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only

in the present can I act.  The ability to be in the present moment is a

major component of mental wellness.

-- Abraham Maslow