Inspiration (or Are you a ‘Cat Person’, too?)

“Inspiration, move me brightly. Light the song with sense and color, hold away despair. More than this I will not ask. Faced with mysteries dark and vast, statements just seem vain at last.” – Robert Hunter (Terrapin Station)

Day 15 of NaBloPoMo.

Halfway home and it ain’t getting easier like I thought it would. I thought the first week would be difficult, which it was, because it was something new, but I figured on the challenge becoming easier as the month progressed. Not so. I’m struggling trying to think of things to write or rant about. I’m struggling believing that the things I do think of to write or rant about aren’t really all that interesting or worth writing or ranting about. I’ve gone from hoping there was a NaBloPoMo challenge for December to thinking that next November is coming upon me too quickly.

One of the beautiful things about blogging that I’ve discovered these last two weeks is that you read other people’s blogs and you begin to meet other bloggers. Bloggers who really know how to blog. That was my realization today after reading a blog from Mo called “Mo is blogging… I think”. Mo blogged about cats yesterday and she shared a cat video I thought was very funny.

Oh, Michael, you’re a cat person, too?

Sort of. I’m more of a dog person than a cat person, but on the Cat Person Scale – with zero being ‘Not a Cat Person at All’ and 10 being ‘Biggest Cat Person in the Universe’ – I’m probably about a 6.5. Maybe a 6.8 on good days. I used to be an ‘Ant Person’ because I liked watching ants and thought they were pretty cool until I actually had ants in my house and now I’m not so much of an ‘Ant Person’ anymore. I’m an ‘Elephant Person’ though and would probably be a ‘Monkey Person’ or ‘Hippopotamus Person’ if I lived in a jungle or an area where monkeys or hippopotamuses lived. I’m also a ‘Cow Person’ and a ‘Bird Person’.

Anyway, so I’m not the world’s biggest cat person. I’d like a cat but I worry a lot (read: too much) about actually caring for a cat beyond the petting part and because that type of angst is impossible to deal with, my thought process simply breaks down after awhile and I end up not adopting a cat. I’m fine with that decision for awhile until I see a picture of a particularly beautiful cat or get an email with pictures of adorable cats doing funny things, or tiny kittens peeking their adorable heads out of things they shouldn’t be in, and then the thoughts start over again.

Yes, I know. What does all that have to do with the cat video? What it has to do with the cat video is that it reminds me exactly why I really don’t go out and adopt a cat.
 
Here’s the video:

I hope you liked the video as much as I did!

Happy Monday.