Stray

 I have recently(like literally a couple of days since) started a routine which takes me for a morning walk in a small neighbourhood park, its size doesn't intimidate me and also the people who walk in are also familiar, softly. There I noticed a couple of kittens, a little grown-up maybe like 6-7 human years. They were sometimes together, sometimes apart, some times preying sometime playing and with every lap, i found them in completely different moods.

But most importantly while talking to one of my cowalkers, i realized they had fixed homes they were served meals. So these twoplayful kittens were actually enjoying their leisure time, trying to hunt birds as stupidly possibly. But yet they had a safety at the back of their minds, a place where they will be fed anyways.

And then it struck me, it's the best of both worlds, and they are teenagers learning the ways of the world, with a safe backdrop. 

I wonder how many of us, are actually able to experience this. A lot of curtailment of free thought, a lot of conditioning and a lot of instructions are passed on in households. It changes things a lot in who we identify as later. Because honestly a lot of time is spent unlearning, i don't call it a waste of time, because this experience also teaches us a lot.

But the freedom to explore and understand our surroundings, ourselves and the ability to form our own principles and doctrines, our guardians having faith that these doctrines will actually be learnt from how they behave.

Watching the kittens i wonder if stray is a good word or is it a word which we use very loosely but holds more meaning than the rules bound society we think about, even for our pets.

Cats have this unique ability to make boundaries, love and yet be independent. Can we learn something from this arrangement?

To love a stray cat takes all the courage and vulnerability, because we don't know what happens next and is full of uncertainty and freedom!




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