Why Do Cats Have Nine Lives?
July 10th, 2009 | 
Author: Cats face many dangers, not the least of which is being chased by pesky dogs. As they eat mice, they could choke. As good as cats are at climbing trees, there’s always the risk of falling. And yet, cats almost always land on their feet.
This metaphor of cats with nine lives should send a message to all of us. Actually, many humans have nine lives. There may be nine different dimensions to our lives. We may have held nine jobs over the years. And, we may have to re-invent ourselves, our careers, our lifestyles, and, therefore, our outlooks on life as many as nine times. I think most humans usually land on their feet as well. Even though the falls we take can be scary and we may think we’ll just crash to the ground, we do more often than not end up landing on our feet.
There is much we can learn from the agility and the durability of cats.
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What a great metaphor! I love it. I never thought of it in that way. Very true. We can be amazingly resilient.
Suffering, Enduring, Overcoming, Striving are all great words to define what needs to be part of the human challenge. Without these words being enacted in our lives, we really have no chance of acheiving our potential. Happiness is more often just having back that childhood calm…that soothing peace that we have somewhere lost and can now reclaim. It’s nothing to do with obtaining “things” of a material or temporal naure. It’s just recapturing our most tranquil moments. That’s how we “land back on our feet”…even after the ninth life!