proud/happy?

[220406] bigfatwhale's friend asked him, what are you proud of in your life? & bigfatwhale threw that big fat question to e cat. & turned out that e cat had e same initial reaction as e water-spouting tailfin-swishing one: don't like e word 'proud', would rather say that am HAPPY that have done this, this & this....

answer that comes to cat's mind = surviving (albeit using up some of its 9 lives)....& having learnt & tried many many things (sometimes on impulse, sometimes just for e heck of it....until it runs out of time to write about them, like e still-incomplete '7 things I jumped into' series of blog entries =P). can die with no regrets. later on, thought about 'managed to help some people in some ways' & 'made some people laugh'?

happy when people say that they have learnt something/how to realise something/how to see something in a different way/thought deeper/felt better able to handle a situation/inspired/etc after talking to e cat/reading what it has written....

happy when e sharing of experiences/thoughts has made someone feel less alone in a world where people surrounded by many many people still feel lonely....

happy when e sharing of scientific observations/theories has led to e demolition of myths & misinformation perpetuated by human bias (e.g. e negative nonsense about homosexuality perpetuated in e press/culling is e best method of controlling e community cat population/wild birds are e primary culprits behind e spread of avian flu/etc)....a big big fat fat reason why e cat has chosen to invest a good part of its remaining lives in Science - can truth be counted as a religion? =P

N.B. e cat does not hope - & thinks that it is none of its business - to change people's minds. cos it believes that people should take responsibility for their own thinking & reason things out for themselves & DIY change their own minds iff they so please; e cat only hopes to lay out facts/point them to resources that could potentially facilitate this.

& also happy because no matter how angry & furious & indignant & blardy pissed it can get, deep down hidden among all e cat fur (sometimes waistlength =P) there remains this baseline level of happiness & peace of mind & a strange calmness & a faith in that 'nothing happens to you that you were not made to tahan' that e cat is keenly aware of. maybe that is why e cat can be incredibly quick to anger & just as incredibly quick to cool down (15 minutes? max 24h =P)? & maybe this is what keeps its fur unruffled (& e centre parting straight *LOL*) even when bombshells drop & e world seems to be coming to an end?

what are you proud (happy) of in your life?

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