If Cats Disappeared from the World

by Genki Kawamura

Maybe the entire human race is unnecessary and the world we live in has no meaning at all.

But when death stares you in the face, you find yourself willing to accept a helping hand from anyone, even the devil, in order to stay alive. It’s basic human instinct. Dignity and respectability fly out the window at that point.

People are always trying to get something for nothing. But that’s just theft. If you’ve gained something, it means that someone, somewhere, has lost something. Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune.

You have to forget some things in order to move on in life.

I think that this happens only three times, tops, in someone’s life—that you meet and are drawn immediately to somebody whose personality is totally different from your own.

How about if I just smack your head against the wall?

that perhaps loneliness is the reason that we can feel other feelings.

“Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. One thing you realize when you’ve lived with a cat for a long time is that you may think that you own them, but that’s not really the way it is. Cats simply allow us the pleasure of their company.”