Your Weekly Delivery of 25 Soft and Silly Kitten Memes for a Midweek Mood Boost (October 28, 2026)

Celeste Mello • Writer and Editor

Oct 28, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

Why are we so patient with a kitten figuring things out and yet so impatient with ourselves?

I clearly don't expect a kitten to get everything right on the first try. I can patiently watch a kitty trying to climb onto a couch and feel nothing but affection. Take your time, sweetheart. You've only recently acquired legs. And when the kitten finally makes it, I'm delighted. What an achievement. Look at you, sitting on furniture! It doesn't cross my mind that another kitten might have done it faster. I'm happy for this achievement, too busy admiring this tiny creature. Why can't we have the same patience for ourselves? And celebrate our little achievements in the same way, instead of comparing ourselves with other people or feeling like we should have done better by now.

That's a conversation I usually have with my best friend. He has been at the same job for years and wants a change, so he's looking for something else, but he keeps thinking he should have found it already because "he should have started looking earlier, not now." He gets so caught up in what he wishes he'd done differently that it becomes difficult to think about what he could do next. And when he tells me he hasn't made any progress, I remind him of the things he has accomplished. He actually managed to buy a car! That deserves a celebration. Even if he is still figuring out his next career move.

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I understand his frustration, and I recognize that habit of expecting myself to be further along, too. But I'm also happy to give a kitten time to learn and celebrate every little success along the way. I don't withhold my enthusiasm until the kitten has mastered absolutely everything. Talking to my friend makes me realize how much we need to have that same patience with ourselves. We're making an effort. No one has everything figured out from the start. So, our achievements deserve encouragement while we're in the process of making them happen.
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*bewitches your phone*

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Between studying, working, maintaining a house, a social life, my friends, my girlfriend, my family, and everything else I'm trying to keep up with, I sometimes expect to understand things so soon. But if we're talking about kittens, I'll give a kitten unlimited attempts to catch a toy. Yet I still get annoyed with myself for needing to reread a paragraph because I can't concentrate faster. Apparently, my patience depends on whether the person learning has little ears.
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Being little makes it easy for us to understand how much there is still to learn. A kitten's size makes it easy for us to remember that. Of course they don't know how everything works yet. But we sometimes forget that being adults doesn't mean we must have everything figured out. We don't have experience with everything, either. There are things we won't know how to do unless we actually give them a go, ask questions, make mistakes, try again. We can't expect ourselves to skip all of that and arrive at the part where we're good at something. And if we're too embarrassed about being inexperienced to even start, we're not giving ourselves much of a chance to learn. We're allowed to need practice, even if we're bigger than a kitten.
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Do they?

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