I first joined simblr around 2018 with the username subellyasims. It was a mix of my cat's name and mine. I can't really put into words what he means to me, but I feel like he deserves people to know about him.
He came into my life just 2 weeks after my grandmother passed away: he was a 2-week-old kitten who was left by his mother just meters away from where my grandmother herself had been born, which I decided to take as a sign. I was deeply depressed and had no tools to express any of it, which meant I was completely isolated. He was my ray of sunshine the moment we took him home and has been everything to me for 10 wonderful years.
His love for food was unmatched, and I cherished every olive he stole from us. He snores when he sleeps; his favorite word is ‘vamos’ because that’s his cue for his meal, and he once decided he was fit to fight a random German shepherd even though he was three apples tall.
The part I remember most clearly of my childhood was begging my parents for a dog or a cat. My dear boy, my 5-year-old self would be shocked to know about you: her expectations weren't low, and still, they weren't high enough to meet the reality of what you have been to me.
He is now sick with no prospect of making it out of it, and it breaks my heart that I can't do anything about it. I keep telling myself that that's what life is, and that he has lived a sweet life full of love, but nothing will ever spare me the heartbreak that comes inherently tied to love.
I'm not sure why I chose to come here and share this. I guess something about my whole first persona in the community being partly his. There is really no point in sharing this other than to say I am grateful that he carried me through such a dark place in my life and showed me I was still capable of love despite everything that happened. For that, I will never stop loving him, and I will remember him and his rare way of affection forever.
Love really does come when you least expect it. It even comes when you don't know how to do it.
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