Sunday Scribblings # 21

- I can win an Oscar for acting like I have not been fed in weeks

- I can say “screw you” and I cannot even speak

- I will walk away when you call me. Slowly if you choose not chase and quickly if you do.

- When you are mad at me for eating something on the counter, I will come back, work you and will be in your lap within 5 minutes.

- I am your best bed buddy when it is cold. When it is warm or hot do not expect to see me all night.

- I can recognize and will inspect anything new that you bring into your home. No matter how big or how small.

- Don't change my litter brand or I might pee on the floor

- I provide pure unconditional love at all times

- I can be finicky about food and usually get what I want

- I will sleep on anything without regard to material if it is new. After all it is mine.

- I watch you when you sleep

- I know I am your favorite and you seek me out to pet me.

In return for all of these great catitaristics I only ask that you do a few things for me. Feed me, love me, flush my toilet on a regular basis and do not let me suffer. Let me go when it is time.

Sunday Scribblings # 19

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), when asked on his deathbed, “What would you do if you could live your life over again?” said, “I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was”.

Coulda, woulda and shoulda. Words I use often but try not to. Brando used it, “I coulda been a contender”.

The only coulda statement that rings true for me is “If I had 20/20 foresight I coulda lived the perfect life”. If I could go out to the golf course and shoot 18 every time there would be no challenge. “I coulda broke 80 if the wind did not come up.” If I caught the fish every time, fishing would be no fun. "I shoulda set the hook harder".

So yes, I coulda and shoulda done things differently. But my perfections and MISTAKES are what make me the person that I am.

In a different life I think I would have been a Buddhist monk with no worldly possessions. I always want something material in nature. My latest obsession is the Toyota FJ Crusier. Do I need it? Nope. I have a good SUV now. Do I want it? Yep.

The Buddhists believe that in order to obtain enlightenment one must give up all materialistic possessions. There is something to that I think. In answer to the Sunday Scribblings question, “I woulda been a monk.”