Five Things You Can Learn From a Pot-plant

Thank you Annette on that illuminating piece on cat psychology. But allow me a bit of a rebuttal here, as not everyone is as enamored with the mangy, self-obsessed, diseased, furry things as you are. Plus, here’s proof in point that you can find similar traits to those you mentioned (composure, patience, sleep, sharing and silence) in just about anything if you look hard enough:

Five Things You Can Learn From a Pot-plant

1. Patience. Oh boy. I’ve spent hours watching my pot-plant not moving. It sure has got patience. What it’s waiting for I have no idea, but that thing has commitment.

2. Growth. In this wonderful life journey we’re all on, we need to remember to root ourselves and drink lots of water so that we can grow, you know, um, spiritually.

3. Contentment. Pot-plants are usually very content just staying where they are. For months or even years on end. Sometimes they need a little extra sunshine, but I mean, who doesn’t?

4. Existentialism. Stay with me on this. Pot-plants determine the meaning and development of their own lives. Well, that is after we have determined the meaning and development of their lives by choosing their pot for them, planting them and watering them every once and a while.

5. Silence. A cat silent? Compared to my pot-plant a cat is a lemonade factory in the volume stakes. All that meowing, purring, licking, hair-balling (now there’s a sport I want nothing to do with) and general living — bumping into things, jumping, knocking priceless do-dads off mantelpieces, etc. My pot-plant can out silence your noisy cat any day.

PS. I ran this piece by Annette before posting it. She loves it. She thinks it’s a load of drug-induced crock, but loves it just the same. We’re still chums.