A STORY BY: ANDREW W.K.

There once was a lonely old woman. She had no one to talk to, and no one to spend time with. She was a very lonely woman. One day a stray cat came to the door of the lonely old woman. It was meowing because it was hungry. She was delighted to see the cat and decided that the right thing to do was to feed him. She brought out some tuna and a dish of cream, and the cat gobbled it up. This made the cat happy and the old woman was not as lonely. The next day the same cat returned to the old woman, but another cat also followed it. The cat had another stray that there was an old woman to feed them. The woman was pleased with more company and happily fed both of the cats big dishes of tuna and cream, the old woman talked to the cats and was not as lonely as the day before. The next day four cats came - the word was spreading amongst the cats about the friendly old woman. By the end of the week 8 cats were showing up regularly and the old woman was running out of food. She went to the fish market to get some more tuna. The man behind the counter asked her, "What do you need with all this fish?" "I am feeding some stray cats." she said. "If you feed them, more and more cats will come. Eventually there will be too many and you won't be able to feed them, any of them. It will be too hard." said the man. "But right now there are only 8 cats and that is not too many for me to feed." replied the old woman. "But you have to think about the future, soon the day will come and you will have 8,000 cats wanting food. What will you do with 8,000 cats?" asked the man. The woman thought for a moment and then said, "Right now there are 8 cats and that I know I can do. If it gets to be 8,000 I will figure it out." The man scowled, "You're being foolish. You should stop feeding them all together, or you will regret it." The old woman walked out the door with her fish and felt worried. On her way back home the old woman thought long and hard about what the man had said. "Maybe he's right." she thought, "Even though I can feed them now I might not be able to do it forever, and it might become too much for me." More doubts entered her mind when she walked up to her door to be greeted by 3 or 4 new cats. There were now at least 12, and the old woman was surprised. "Oh no, maybe he's right!", she thought. She ran into her house and closed the door. After a few minutes she calmed herself down and decided that her panic was silly. After taking a deep breath she thought, "I'm an old woman, and I don't have all that many years left to feed cats, or do much else for that matter. I might as well do what I please." So the woman went back outside and fed the cats, and they purred and rubbed up against her and she hugged them and didn't feel very lonely at all. The old woman kept feeding the cats everyday, and everyday more and more cats did come. And as the months passed, she grew less and less lonely. And even though there were many cats, there weren't too many and she loved finding ways to feed them all. She was very happy. One day, just before she was going to get more fish, she passed away. But right before she died she saw a line of hundreds of cats, one by one, making their way to her door, and as her eyes closed she realized she had never felt more loved. And she was never lonely again. THE END.                                                                                                -Andrew W.K.- date unknown

I found this story on www.andrewwk.com and just loved it. It is something that has so much meaning, and I had to share it with everyone. I just wanted to thank Andrew for posting it on his site, giving me the chance and so many other people to read it. Thanks!!

Now on with the moral...

SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING. If you can do soemthing good today, and it makes you and others happy, don't wonder if you can still do it tomorrow, because tomorrow may never come. Don't save up things for later, because later might be too late. There are always a million reasons not to do something. There's always "what if this happens? or "in the past that didn't work", or "you won't be able to do that forever." Nothing is forever. Life isn't forever. You only need one reason to do something. The cats loved the woman because of what she did for them, without her they would've have less. And even though they can't have food from her anymore, they were glad to have had food from her at all. And she might not have been able to feed 8,000 cats, but 8,000 cats never came. Is it right to NOT feed 8 cats because of 8,000 more you can't feed? Isn't it better to run one mile of a marathon race than no miles at all? SOME IS BETTER THEN NONE. Don't worry about things that are not there, or have not yet come, because they are NOT THERE and have NOT YET COME. Give more than you think is possible RIGHT NOW and prove to yourself that you have more than you thought. Don't let possibilities destroy reality.                                                                            -Andrew W.K.-

If you haven't had the chance please take the time to go to www.andrewwk.com and read some of the personal thoughts that Andrew has taken the time to write. You would be amazed of how deep he can really be. Not your average rock star, and not afraid to admit it, either!

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