We All Have Those Days

Hey there everyone! I know this is not Thursday, but I just feel like writing and sharing my thoughts with you tonight.

For starters, my family has outdoor cats. We feed them and they hang out mostly on our property and they have names. Recently, one of our cats had cute kittens! She didn’t give birth on our property, but she eventually brought them to our back porch, where the litter boxes are. I love looking out the door from inside the house and looking at them! They’re so adorable and they’re a little joy of life for me. I had been trying to get them used to me so I could hold them; they used to hiss when I would go out there. I knew we wouldn’t be able to keep them all, of course; we have too many cats as it is. But one day recently, all four of the baby kitties disappeared.

I can’t say for sure what happened to all four of them all at once, but… It makes me sad to think that someone took them without asking around first. They were still nursing and they were the babies of one of our cats. I know it may be legal to take neighborhood cats and do whatever you want with them, but it’s not very nice. Every time I see Mama Cat out on the front porch I feel so sad. She looks so lonely and forlorn. Her offspring were taken from her and even though she’s just an animal it’s just so sad to me. I know that life is sometimes just unfair and hurtful, and that most people in this world weren’t raised to be thoughtful of others’ feelings, but it’s still just sad. So I just want to encourage you to not be that person! The kind of person who takes kittens without asking around the neighborhood first, the person who makes the negative comments on others’ social media posts or face-to-face, the person who doesn’t think about how your choices might affect or hurt other people.

This wasn’t the only bummer of my day (well, this actually didn’t happen today, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately), but I suppose we all just have those kinds of days. Days where it kind of seems like the world is against you. The days you do (or don’t do) something and then get mad at yourself for because there really is no one to blame but you. The days you have to take a detour which makes you run a bit behind and then no one in front of you wants to even go the speed limit. All the little negative things seem to happen in one day, don’t they? Or a couple days in a row or in the same week. The weather was absolutely beautiful today, though, and my health was back to normal, so those were both lovely blessings. I hope that if you’re having a rough day, you will be able to find a few things to be grateful for too! <3

Thanks for stopping by even though it’s not my regular posting day. Hope to have you back next week!