On cats.

 I think cats are some of the most endearing living beings on Earth, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks that. Cats are funny, cute, affectionate, and largely independent. At the same time, however, they are chaotic, messy, disease-carrying, snarky, and uncaring.

 But we love them anyway. Not in ignorance of their negative attributes, but because of them! We love responsibility and turmoil as much as we loathe it. We hate it when a cat gets into something we don't want them to, but we can't help but laugh as they cutely declare themselves an enemy of the household.

 Cats are a simplistic embodiment of us. We love  each other as much as we hate each other, we are as dependent as we are independent. Cats are walking contradictions, just as we are. They prove we are okay, we are deserving of love, and that we are whole, just as cats are. I think that's beautiful, in a way.

 I love cats.