u/Id_ratherbe_reading

You, as a person who cares about your personhood, ends a relationship with a person, because they, after years of trying, couldn't break or take you from you. You are you.

You stand alone, steady and secure and happy.

Then, comes a day, your cat, also a person you love, reaches out, and reaches up their paw, with its sharp razor claws, and at that moment when you are most secure and happy with your choices, slices your eyelid into two pieces.

And as your eye fills, and the blood soaks through the gauze, you think, I would still choose this cat.