Goodbye my love
In 2022 November, I saw the photo of the 15-year-old aging cat (We usually called her “fat cat”😂) at home sent by my mother, it, which originally weighed about seven or eight kilograms, had slimmed down to just over two kilograms. The fat cat of the past no longer existed, only the years under the skin and bones were left, and I was shocked to realise that I had left Taiwan for so many years. Although I was planning to visit Taiwan in 2023 May, I knew I might not have any chance to see her again and there was a timer running in my mind.
2023 January 14, my mother told me that the fat cat had passed away. She waited until my father came home and died peacefully in her sleeping.
After a certain age, it seems that I can only watch the people and things around me constantly changing but powerless. Thinking back to my mother’s brain surgery hospitalisation three years ago, being overseas made me feel even more powerless.
Goodbye, my grumpy fat cat. Although you were grumpy quite often and you were skinny in the end, you will be always a good fat cat in our hearts.
R.I.P Good fat cat, 2007/04 ~ 2023/01/14
Goodbye my Hana, thanks for being part of my life like an angel.
I will always remember the day Hana was born. It was a typhoon day in October (or September?) 2007. My colleague’s cat gave birth to a litter of kittens and Hana was one of them. We braved the storm that day to go to Davinci cycling shop (where I worked and it now no longer exists) to find the kittens hidden by the mother.
There were six kittens in total, and their eyes couldn’t even open yet, and they had no fur all over their bodies. The pink skin made them just like naked aliens. My colleague took on the role of a cat mother, feeding them regularly every day. He fed them a special milk which can replace the real cat milk. I also regularly checked on them when I was in the shop.
When they grew up and were big enough (probably around 2 months old? I really cannot remember), I decided to adopt one of them. Other kittens were adopted by different people, most of them were my colleague’s friends and my friends.
Hana always had a good tamper. I never saw her angry with anyone. Always very friendly and loved anyone to rub her belly.
Sadly, I moved away from home in 2012 because of my job and study. I only saw her (and another cat) a few times a year since then. Last year, when I went back to Taiwan to visit my family, I knew it was probably my last time to hug her and play with her. Gracefully, two of them have a lot of love from my family.
It’s always hurt to lose something or someone important in our life. I guess I probably won’t have any cat in the future because it’s too painful to bear with this feeling.
R.I.P My Hana, 2007/10 ~ 2024/06/26
I hope you two meet and play again in another world.🌈
