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These cats have entered a state of profound contemplation. The great philosophers of ancient Greece spent their lives chasing this level of focus. Cats achieve it three times before noon, usually while sitting inside a cardboard box or on top of your laptop.The interesting thing about the serious cat stare is that it communicates everything and nothing at once. Is Mango deeply troubled by the existential weight of being a creature that sleeps seventeen hours a day? Is Biscuit working through a complex geopolitical theory? Or is she simply watching the wall because there was a fly there six hours ago and she has not forgiven it?
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What these twenty-three cats have in common is an aura of absolute, unshakeable gravitas. No smiling. No derpy tongue. No loaf mode. These are cats who have seen things. Cats who have witnessed the 3 AM zoomies from the other side. Cats who sat beside you during your worst moments and simply knew, without saying anything, because they are cats and cats do not say anything. They stare into your soul not to judge it, although they are judging it, but because they have already weighed the contents and filed a thorough report somewhere deep in their magnificent little brains.
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Some of them are sitting in bread loaf position while they do it, which somehow makes the whole thing more solemn. The loaf form suggests patience. Eternity. A being that has nowhere else to be and everywhere else to be, simultaneously. Scroll through these portraits of feline wisdom and try, just try, to maintain eye contact. It's harder than it sounds. These cats have unlocked something the rest of us are still looking for, nestled quietly between the second nap of the day and dinnertime, unbothered by the passage of time, one unblinking gaze at a time.
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