I love laughter. It lightens the heaviness that sometimes comes with living. It’s great for the soul. It’s also good for your health and your skin.
Recently I was listening to a comedian who compared women to dogs and men to cats. What! If this is true, I might have to change my name!
It was an very funny piece. I can’t really do it justice, so go ahead and listen to Jodi Miller explain why men are cats and women are dogs.
Can you see her point? The aloof cat expecting to be fed and looking out the window at nothing? Yep, that’s a man. The dog eager to please, wanting company, cleaning up after everyone. Yep, that’s a woman.
A little more clinical, but just as funny is this explanation between men’s and women’s brains and how they work. You could still use the word cat and dog to explain them as well! Check out a Tale of Two Brains.
I can totally see that comparison. However, the reason I call myself – and all women – Bad Kitties still stands.
Just in case you’ve forgotten, this is why:
Cats are all individuals. They all have their own unique personality. We bring them into our home and expect them to behave in a certain way so when they scratch the furniture or eat the plants we yell at them “bad cat!” They will stop what they’re doing – until your back is turned.
Cats are always true to who they are.
We, like cats, are born perfect and beautiful with our own unique personality. We are also born into a society that expects us to behave in a certain way. Wanting to be loved and accepted, we take those parts of ourselves that we are told are “wrong” or “bad” and put them into little boxes with tight lids. We take those boxes into the sub-sub basement of ourselves and put them behind a 12″ steel door with 14 padlocks and pretend it doesn’t exist.
We then go through our lives wondering why we have lost our passion, keep making bad decisions, set aside our dreams and, in general, can’t seem to be happy.
Being a Bad Kitty is about grabbing a blowtorch, heading down to that sub-sub basement and cutting off all those padlocks. After flipping open the door, take out the little boxes, flip open the lids and take back those parts of yourself that you’ve been hiding.
When that happens you become a Bad Kitty:
B eautiful (as you are; no changes required)
A uthentic (you are amazing just as you are; no changes required)
D ivine (honoring your spirit, your passion, yourself)
K ompletely (no compromise)
I ndividual (beautiful in your uniqueness)
T otally (every bit of you adds up to something fabulous)
T rue (constant, unaffected by the standards of others)
Y ou (yes, YOU are a Bad Kitty!)
Whether you feel more like a dog or a cat, you deserve to live your life as a Bad Kitty, given the definition above. So find ways to be true to you. Love yourself in all your crazy fabulousness. Take care of the body you’ve been given. Honor your dreams and goals. Stand up for you!
Because you, yes YOU are a Bad Kitty. Be Beautiful, Be YOU!
Christie Mawer – The Bad Kitty
thebadkittyis@gmail.com