…That sometimes change can just come to your door?
There are days when I crave it and others when it just arrives…
Friday nights I sometimes plop myself down in front of a computer and/or a television set. The week is normally long and the desire to do anything is slim. This past Friday was of this ilk. I came home, talked to a neighbor, had some dinner and started to watch a little television. My front door was open (it IS August) and the traffic was whizzing by from the front window outside on Fountain Avenue.
Suddenly there was someone at my screen door with a question. It was a neighbor. “Are you ready yet?” she said. “Ready for…. ?” I replied.
Four years ago this week I lost my cat of many, many years. Hobbes was a good friend and a great companion. We had lived in this apartment since the beginning and in another before that. On August 18 of 2005 I came home and he was eternally asleep in one of his favorite spots. For a long time afterwards I really didn’t want to have a pet again. I prefer to travel. I am not home a lot… there are any number of excuses that I could list off as the reason. Now here I am four years later and the thought hadn’t really crossed my mind for a very long time.
But my neighbor had a few “extra” cats that were part of a divorced couple’s home. Both had lived together for all of their lives (approximately four years or so) and their home simply broke up. My neighbor was taking them in but already has three cats. She wanted to know if I was ready to take some friends in yet.
Immediately I must say that I was not sure. I wanted to just say “no.” But I didn’t. I told her to bring one down (before I knew there were two that had been together.) Before I knew it both were down visiting. It was a test. Suddenly the nature of my home had changed entirely. I have new residents. I have new friends.
By Saturday (they stayed the night) I had decided I would let them live with me. I was with my cousin and we both knew these boys were sweet and well behaved. We knew they loved each other and wanted to stay together. We went out and bought a bunch of Kitty things and I felt a wave of nostalgia and happiness about the new twist that came out of nowhere straight to my front door.
Change is inevitable. Some days I wish for it and it just does not seem to come. Others, there it is right in front of my face as unexpected as an earthquake. I am happy with this development in my world and hope it reminds me that the things that I look and hope for elsewhere are going to develop as well.
They always do.
Be Happy. Be Well. Be.