love language number six
You know that book The Five Love Languages? This morning a new and disturbing love language was brought to my attention and it made me gag. I haven't read the book, but if you have friends or family in a relationship you've probably heard of it and are familiar with the idea. I kind of go back and forth from being cynical about it because it's a self-help book and being ok with it because I see that it has helped some people. I can be cynical though becuase I don't have a boyfriend.
Anyway, this morning I discovered that one man's love is another man's disgust, or in this case one cat's love is another girl's disgust and need to throw up and cry.
My cat Alex has been a sweet but playful kitten this whole school year and was always so clumsy and slow that me and my fellow kitty-caregivers denied his capabilities of hunting successfully and concluded that all he could ever catch were fleas. But lately he has been catching these ugly little shrews and leaving them on our doorstep. This is a curious thing to do to show one's loyalty to someone else(even though it is a cat-human situation, it still leaves room for profundity). I didn't really care because shrews are ugly and I figured as long as he killed ugly things his new love language was a-ok in my book. Unfortunately for several characters in this story, he didn't quite have the same philosophy of "kill ugly things, let cute things flourish" as I did(as much as I tried to tell him). You've probably already guessed what happens next, this morning I found something in the garage that used to be cute and that made me really sad and upset and when I tried to clean it up, I gagged a lot. Thanks Alex, I love you too, love language number six is a little hard to swallow.


8 Comments:
Remember when you stabbed the ran over squirrel to death while I plugged my ears on the other side of the road? I would relive that moment if only to be with you again.
Ok, for clarification in case some poor person reads your comment and thinks I a serial rodent mangler, I would like to rephrase that story. The squirrel was half dead and I couldn't back up and run it over again so I had to humanely put it out of its misery some other way. My biology professor taught us how to humanely put down deer mice in the lab and so I didn't stab it to death I simply performed a merciful procedure so the squirrel didn't have to be in pain anymore.
Yes Maranatha, I would wade through a sea of roadkill if you were on the other side!
Hey, I'm glad we're friends! I would wade through worse things.
So are you home now?
no, I'm in the same place, but I'm going home in about 11 hours!
Are you home NOW?
yes!!!
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