cats

i've made friends with a black cat near me that just hangs out on the driveway waiting for people to come scritch it, at this point it comes running when i greet it and when i scratch the right spot on the side of the neck it melts into a puddle.

i cannot put into words how happy it makes me just to think about it, there is a small creature whose only experience of me is that i appear from nowhere every now and then and sit there giving it a spa treatment for like 10 minutes, it's so utterly idyllic and i can't believe it actually happens in real life.