We had made a deal. We promised that we'd admit all the things that we didn't like about each other if we ever broke up. We thought that way we'd learn something about love, about being in a relationship. The lover is the eternal teacher.
I scooped the cat up and snuggled him against my chest for comfort. He was warm and soft, a smooth fluffy ball of fur in my arms. I'd cuddled up with the little guy countless times over the years without thinking much about it, but now, for the first time ever, it occurred to me that maybe this little act of comfort was what life was all about.
They say that when a man is dying, the first name that comes to mind is his first love.
When human beings invented the mobile phone, they also invented the anxiety of not having one.