Companionship

All three of our cats get along very well.  They play together, they cuddle and sleep together. They even give each other baths.  When we brought Falcor into our home, he and Pop-eye played together off the bat, they shared their food like true kitty brothers.  They didn't fight over food or our attention.   When we brought Orion home, he went straight to Falcor and tried to snuggle up on him.  Later that night Falcor showed his disapproval by pooping on the counter.  Despite that one moment they all got used to each other and find companionship with each other.  

It is normal for us to come home from work and find they boys cuddled on the couch together or on the bed.  While they do want our attention and do let that be known, they mainly find their companionship with one another.  They share kitty-cat joys like sunbeams and the tinsel balls a friend bought for them.  The boys are just like brothers, part of the family.  They sure do fight like brothers.  One of my favorite things is coming home to see Falcor and Orion snuggled together like in the first picture.

As humans it is part of our nature to want to find companionship.  We want someone to share our lives with, whether it is as a spouse or a very close friend.  Someone we can turn to when we need a shoulder to cry on or someone to share in our utmost joys.  We spend so much time searching for that perfect person and at the same time we hurt those people we chose as companions, and get hurt by them.  While we want that everlasting companionship of another person, we also want our free space, our time to ourselves.  Who wouldn't want a little time to be themselves?  But from what I have observed, a lot of the times we tend to push people away when we want that space.  Think so many of us think that when we have someone as our companion, someone to share life we feel the need to be with them all the time and soon lose out on ourselves so we feel we need space and push them away.

While the cats do spend time together, cuddling, playing, and whatever else.  They do also spend time alone.  At this very moment, Pop-eye is laying under the table with me, Orion is on my pillow and Falcor is laying in the bathroom sink.  When one of the boys wants to play and the other doesn't, they let it be known, or they simply run away.  A lot of the time we feel obligated to do things our spouse or friends want to do, almost like we need to do things for them, with the, instead of doing somethings on our own.   In our search for the perfect companion, we tend to lose out on who we are, and I will be among the first to admit that I do the same thing I am talking about.  Its not like our companions will leave us if we don't do something they want, or even if we do something on our own.

We desperately crave companionship and would do anything to gain it sometimes, and many of us women tend to do things we normally wouldn't do.  Again something I have done in the past looking for someone who would give me what I wanted and needed.  The cats are content with their companions, they are content at playing when they want, cuddling whenever, and spending time alone as well.  They find safety in knowing the others two are simply around (or at least I like to think that they do).  Why can't we be content in simply knowing our companions are there?