The Unbearable Lightness of Cats: 28 Memes For Existential Humans

"There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture." - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Now that we have your attention, thinking about human existence can make the mind go in various directions, awry with wonders of what could be, why, and what to do with it. Philosophers from ancient Greece got only so far in giving humanity solace for these pressing questions, these existential pleas. There's really one answer, and it's simple: cats.

Cats give lightness to life, they exist as posits of joy and escape. We live with them, dine with them, and love them with all our hearts, and they simply sit there begging for more tuna and meowing. Instead of crying into the night's sky with your fists in the air, wondering why we're here, why life is suffering, and where are we left to go, scroll these happy and lighthearted cat memes to omit the heavy burden of life's pressure.

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I have loved this novel ever since I read it 10 years ago. I was at university, and the last thing I wanted to do was study. So what did I do instead? I locked myself in my dorm, curled up in bed with this novel that shook my foundation of life. It wasn't just a beautiful and thought-provoking story of love, relationships, and a codependent couple. It was a political statement, a relic of history, of a time when boundaries were broken, reality was erased, and free-thinking wasn't permitted. Kundera bridged poetic beauty and eloquent vernacular with harsh themes that flowed together in a somehow purrfect stream. I hope you enjoy these cat memes just as much as I enjoyed the novel.
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