Little Wild Cat, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Little Wild Cat, what do you want to be when you grow up?
The little wild cat came into the world as a wild kitten should: They crept up quietly, jumped and surprised everyone. Then they meowed contentedly, curled up and immediately rewarded themselves with a long nap.
Whenever the little wild cat was awake, they wanted to know everything in detail. They looked under every stone, behind every bush and climbed every tree.
They went on long wanderings and eventually travelled far and wide. In part because they knew that someone was always waiting for them at home.
Time passed very quickly,
the way it only can in moments of joy.
Only gradually did the little wild cat realise how everyone around them was changing. “Little wild cat, what do you want to be when you grow up?”, The little wild cat didn’t understand why the others were asking. They knew what they were: a little wild cat. Why should they become something else now?
Time passed more and more slowly and the little wild cat’s wanderings became less frequent. More and more often they crawled under the sofa and curled up in a ball.
“What if I’ve missed out on becoming something?”
The little wild cat didn’t know what to do. “Who can tell me what I should become?” they asked themselves. Of them all, the peacock seemed the most confident. He generally seemed to have an answer for everything. So the little wild cat went to the peacock and asked him: “Dear peacock, what should I be when I grow up?”
“That’s easy,” said the peacock. “The trick is to appear to be someone who has already made iteverything else comes automatically”
“That’s not me,” said the little wild cat.
“I would be successful, but I wouldn’t be happy.”
“Then I can’t help you,” replied the peacock, because he wasn’t that happy himself.
The little wild cat thought about who else to ask. Of all of them, the zebra seemed to be the happiest.
“Dear zebra, what should I be when I grow up?”
“That’s easy,” said the zebra.
“The trick is not to take yourself so seriously. Others will show you your role”.
“That’s not me,” said the little wild cat again. “I would be happy, but I still wouldn’t know who I am.”
“Then I can’t help you,” replied the little wild cat, because she didn’t really know herself.
The bear seemed to the little wild cat to be neither the most successful nor the happiest of all. But he was very honest, so they asked the bear.
“Dear bear, what should I be when I grow up?”
“I can’t tell you that,” the bear replied.
“Why don’t you try some things out? Then you’ll soon find out what you are.”
So the little wild cat tried things out. First, they sought adventure.
Next, they tried something more stable.
The little wild cat tried out more and more. They wandered through different lives and hardly noticed how time passed by. Before the little wild cat knew what was happening to them, they were suddenly something.
If you ask them today what they are, the little wild cat will tell you about all their adventures.
Of those that have been, and those that are yet to be.
