A Heartwarming Delivery Of 23 Smiling Cats This Meowvelous Monday

The title says it all, and we all understand what it means. Heartwarming is the essence of a cat, even though there could be a contradiction in their behavior. There's a tacit implication of what it means to be "cat." Cat humor, cat behavior, cat anything is so iconically cat. From their paranoid crazy eyes, to being calm one minute to running over to bounce off the walls the next, cats really hold up to their stereotypes. There's never a time when I meet a cat and it isn't just the most cat-like cat to me. Even a white, soft, fluffy, beautiful cat is still...a cat. There's something stripped of sophistication, in the most cat way. 

That's the magic of cats. No matter how elegant they appear, they're always about five seconds away from doing something completely ridiculous. A cat can spend the afternoon perched majestically on a windowsill, gazing thoughtfully into the distance like a philosopher contemplating the meaning of existence, only to have professional zoomies within minutes is what makes cats so cat and heartwarming. The sophistication disappears instantly, replaced by pure, unfiltered cat. And somehow, that only makes them more lovable. Cats are walking contradictions. They're cute and baby shaped, but they're evil and malicious at the last moment. They're just so intensely independent creatures who follow you into the bathroom because apparently privacy is unacceptable. They act deeply offended when you touch them without permission, then climb directly onto your laptop while you're trying to work. They'll reject the expensive bed you lovingly picked out for them and spend six hours sleeping inside the cardboard box it arrived in. Perhaps being "cat" means refusing to make sense.