Jul 09, 2004 00:24
Have you ever been hit with a serious situation ?
Like one strait out of a TV show?
I havn't but, I feel pretty confident that I would react like Arnold, Tom, Bruce, and all those other action star in their famous roles,... I don't think I would flip out. I'm clam, cool, and colective whenever I'm faced with something huge...
Not that this at all measures up to anything Bruce Willis ever did,..... but one of my cats went missing today....
Here's the facts:
-Inside cat
-frail and week in comparison to brother
-sick, could die soon
-trained to come when called(always gets food)
-my sister is big and slow
-cat last seen a day ago, under my sister's foot(ap.350lbs.)
-I live in a trailer=>limited space to hide
All day we searched opening doors we hardly open, removing things from closets to find the back and bottom,....We can't find her,... now 24hours MIA,...she hasn't eaten, she hasn't visited the litter box,... I'm thinking worst case senario,...She was greatly injured by my sister and ran off in a hole to die somewhere. Despite loving my cat, I was afraid of a decomposing body in a small area. I was praying to find her first, so my mother wouldn't have to go through it.
And this entire time I was calm. I wasn't freaking out that my cat could be dead. I wasn't freaking out about it being stuck somewhere or dying. I was just searching.
And I'm not basing my calm, cool, and collective assumption just on my cat. Even as a kid I didn't freak out when I lost my mom in the store. I don't freak out when I'm separated from people in big cities far away from home. I don't freak out about much at all... I just do what needs to be done,... and of course there is always that voice in the back of my head telling me "They left you, they've been murdered, she's being kidnapped, he's dead, you're going to crash, he's going to rape you" I don't freak out eventhough I think worst case senario,... I take deep breaths and do what I need to do.