Yesterday my humans celebrated a holiday they call Thanksgiving. In observing their behavior, I can identify three main components of this holiday. One component is a large meal. I am in favor of large meals. A second component is spending time with family. I am not a big fan of house guests (they disrupt the daily routine, and sometimes they even bring a toddler or a dog), but I am on good terms with Zoom, so Zoom family time for Thanksgiving worked out well for me.
A third component is mentioning things that they are grateful for. This is a bit counterintuitive for us cats, since gratitude is not really a cat thing. As I understand it, being grateful involves imagining being without various things that one might have taken for granted and then realizing how good it is that one's life does contain those things. Perhaps by coincidence, I got a chance to practise this "gratitude" at Thanksgiving. I don't want to blame anyone, but our normal canned food ran out recently, and for over a week we had to make do with some very inferior food. This was unpleasant, but it did make me appreciate the normal food! If my renewed feelings of enthusiasm for the normal food brand is gratitude, then I have experienced it.
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| Grateful for the regular food! |
By further coincidence, my human is getting to experience the same sort of gratitude just now, but for chocolate. The chocolate ran out in this house earlier this week and the new order has yet to arrive.
