🐱🌿🐱🌿🐱It’s a half- joke I tell at parties, but there is truth in it: cats don’t pretend. They don’t say yes when they mean no; they don’t smile when they are about to strike. They grant affection when they feel safe and retreat when they need space, and in these gestures there is an honesty I crave. Loving a cat requires a respect for autonomy and a willingness to be okay with not always being the center of someone’s world. In return, you get a connection that is real, not out of obligation but out of choice. And that kind of mutual respect is something I’d pick every time.
