When I was young I would notice that a group of people were not sick. Then someone would visit them, and they all got the common cold or flu. What was weird, to me, was that if the common cold can be caught off others why did it not just keep going around the group forever. The reason they stopped giving each other the cold or flu was that their body got used to it and built up ways to stop getting unwell.

At the moment some of my cats and kittens are unwell. I noticed them sitting around looking sad, and one of my most active kittens just sits there looking miserable and would not each for a couple of days. Looked like he didn’t care if he lived or died.

So I took the kitten inside the house and held it for an hour, patting the little one, talking to him, and in general letting him know that he is loved, wanted, liked and I was happy to have him around. I did this for a day, and the kitten started eating again, and is on the way to recovery.

This made me think of all the elderly, unwell, crippled, suffering people in the world that die each year because they have no one, family are too active with their own lives to visit, and people just really don’t care.
It really does not take much time or much effort to make people feel good about life, and themselves, and feeling needed, wanted, appreciated and loved.

They say that people can die from a broken heart. I wonder how many people die, simply die because they feel unwanted not loved, not needed, not appreciated. Like the unwell kittens, once given some love, time, and care, they perk up and make an effort to be around because they know that their being alive is important to someone else.

Please remember, that once a person or animal is gone, its gone. You can’t get them back, you can’t say what you always wanted to say but didn’t.

Its nice to know that people died knowing that he or she is loved, and will be missed.