Parents Dying
I am a feline lover, I have a selected number of cats in my neighbourhood that I look after, I will buy cat food, and after my dinner I will walk around the community, say hello to the cats, and feed them. After sometime we become close buddies. The cats treat me as their hooman, and I treat them as my ajahns, because they teach me how to sit still and practise mindfulness of myself and my environment. There are times when I'll go overseas and I miss my cats. I'd wonder, if I'm not around to feed them, would they be hungry or starve? Who would play with them in their absence? Would they get run down by cars or be abducted by aliens? The sort of worries that a caregiver has is tremendous, even though they might seem like unwanted cats in the community, but to me because I have been caring for them for almost a decade, I develop attachment to them. The good news is that everytime I come back home from overseas, the cats will still be there waiting for me. These felines seem t...
