December Days 02025 #17: Persistence
Dec. 17th, 2025 11:30 pm( 17: Persistence )

Cats have an extra special way of burrowing into human hearts. Oftentimes, they make us earn their affections, but once we are invited into the exclusive Kitty Friendship Club, that cat will love and trust us for the rest of their days. However, sometimes our soul-cats are taken from us too soon, and like the cat lover in this next story who lost her beloved best friend at only 2 years old, it's tough to replace their meows, their cuddles, and especially their special purrsonalities.
However, only 3 weeks after her cat crossed the rainbow bridge, she discovered a helpless meowing kitten in the snow, literally submerged in the cold. Without her help, the kitten would never have survived, so naturally, she had no choice but to scoop the kitty up. But after inviting the cat into her home, she started noticing unusual behavior from the rambunctious feline.
This cat wasn't just an ordinary stray, but a near carbon copy of her other cat.
Without a shadow of a doubt in her heart, she believed this cat came to her for a reason. Not because he was cold in the snow, needing a home, or because he knew the woman inside was a cat cuddler, but because this cat had been here before.
He was just coming home.
Do you have left and right socks?
Of course! Can't wear socks on the wrong feet!
3 (15.8%)
No, it doesn't matter
15 (78.9%)
I don't wear socks
0 (0.0%)
I refuse to answer on the grounds it may incriminate me, but ticky boxes!
1 (5.3%)
It's the 21st century and technology is starting to take over everything you do. Even as a parent, you have iPads, YouTube, and battery operated toys for your kids to learn from. We're losing the plot as humans. We're forgetting what it's all about. It's time to bring nature back into nurturing. Raising kids who can name plants and animals, not brands and celebrities is a flex these days. Children can learn so much simply from the world around them. Trees, plants, wildlife, and even the wind can teach a child so much. Many moms are starting to turn to the great outdoors to help them rear their babies. Even moms who weren't initially outdoorsy and starting to explore the meaning of being a "mama bear." Being in the woods with your kids brings out the strong mom within and gives your kids a time to truly just be kids. Let them run around the trees. Feel the grass between their toes. Check the skies for stormy weather. Splash around in a creek and name the salamanders. What a beautiful childhood it can be for both children and parents if it were spent more so outdoors. So these memes are for the granola scrunchy mamas out there!
It's one thing to leave a small tip in a non-tipping society, but it is a complete other thing to not leave a tip at all in a society where people are living off of tips. If you leave a euro or two in Europe because the service was exceptional, that's fine. If you live a dollar or two on a $100 check in the U.S., then you are just a total entitled Karen. If you truly are anti-tipping, then you should be working on getting actual political policies changed, not shorting a waitress on her tip that she was going to use towards her rent that month. Like, grow some compassion!
Recently, a waitress was able to turn her $0 tip into several hundreds. How? Well, she simply asked the person who didn't tip her what she could do next time to make their experience better so she could earn more than $0 on a $400 tab. Oh boy, oh boy, the party he was with, his own friends, quickly turned on him. One of his friends was even a bartender, someone who very specifically lives off of tips, and they were quick to shame him and even put down more of their own cash for her as tip. He ended up erasing the zero quickly, but the aura damage was done. Hopefully that teaches him a little lesson in empathy…