While I was walking among the tables of restaurants filled with delicious food, I saw my friend trying hard to get a bite to fill his breath, as soon as he saw me until he frowned at me, saying:
- What brought you at this time? Did you come jostle for my bite?
I smiled and I burp and I replied humbly:
- thankfully not eaten until filled
Sigh Tommy on his shouted:
- days ago I like this, I suffer a lack of livelihood here. I will change this restaurant to another, so
I laughed at the simplicity of his thinking sarcastically, then I stretched out my fat body and said:
- Each of us has acquired a place, do not imagine that someone else will accept you as a competitor or partner. Don't you remember your reaction when you spotted me at your restaurant at this time?
He leaned on his left side and said, "
What is the solution then?" I will die of starvation.
I approached him, taking the position of a wise professor, and said:
Taking a morsel requires two situations: either you win the sympathy of your customers, and they give up some of their strength in order to feed you with compassion, or you annoy them, especially the women among them, so that they dispense with a part of their strength to relieve them of your passing near their feet all the time.
Tommy replied with pride:
-You know that I will not bother anyone, nor will I grovel in front of anyone.
I said sarcastically:
- Why do you inherit this condition, then? It is the result of your pride, nothing but a
long look at me with his blue eyes, after which he rose from his place and said:
- There is a third way that
Lake did not mention to me
.
Tommy replied confidently:
- To work hard to earn a living with honor and with the sweat of one's brow
I asked him sarcastically :
- Is this yours, hero? In your place, there is no way for that.
firmly replied:
- I will change my place then, I will go out to the market, I will hunt mice and fill my stomach with them, and even from the shop owners I will get enough fish and chicken for me, my livelihood will expand there instead of this hunger that I suffer here.
I laughed at his boldness and said, dashed by his hopes:
- Do you think you are the ferocious and skilled market cats? You are not a cat Elif Ibn Restaurants.
Tommy stopped looking at me and prepared to go to the market without completing his dialogue with me. I stopped him saying:
- Do not take pride and enter yourself in a losing battle. Prepare for it first, listen, you must acquire the skills necessary to experience the markets, and for myself I will help you by keeping you part of my daily strength. Do not carry them to your food during your training.
Then she continued winking at him:
- Provided you don't forget me about fish and chicken as soon as you lead the place.
His eyes glowed with the hope of that description, "the market leader." He said:
- I will never forget your deed, my friend Miao, make sure of it.
And really Tommy changed his life system from that moment, he trained in hunting, and improved his speed every day, his speed in running after his prey and pounce on it and fleeing from his enemies, he faced mice and dogs without fear, he never gave up despite the falls and wounds every time. Despite my suggestion to him to share my share of the restaurant with him, he would have been dear to himself. If I had not sworn to him, he would not have done so. It continued this year in which Tommy became another fierce, fast and graceful cat.
And now it is time for him to go to the battlefield of his new life, which he has been working for since a year ago. I told him with fear:
- Do you see yourself ready for this experience?
He replied with confidence:
- Yes, I am ready, and none of those fat cats will dare to beat me, it seems that they have lost their skills by eating too much, I even heard the merchants complaining about the large number of mice lately and that these cats are no longer doing their job to the fullest. I will take this opportunity to get what I deserve.
I wished him luck, and he left without looking back.
In the evening Tommy returned, his body full of wounds, unable to move. effortlessly returned to my house. I ran towards him screaming:
- What happened?
He looked at me miserably and fell unconscious. Two days passed and he was in this condition, I treated his wounds and I guess from their nature that the market cats turned around and got him. When he regained consciousness, he told me what had happened, and what I expected was actually what happened, so I told him:
I made a mistake when I let you go alone, I should have come with you.
Tommy smiled in spite of his pain, saying:
- How would you deal with the fierce market cats, and you are nothing but a pet cat, the son of restaurants. I
smiled too and said:
- It seems that you have memorized your lessons well.
Then she added:
- You must not work alone, you must form a team if you want to conquer the market.
He looked at me in astonishment, and I asked, "
What's wrong with you?" Why this look, did I say something so strange?
He replied:
- I thought you would deter me and bring me back to my first environment, as I had failed to achieve my dream
. I smiled at him and said:
- Do not forget that I am the wise of cats. I do not consider failure the end of a person's path towards his dream, but rather he should learn from his mistakes and make them and return to his journey again armed with his new experiences. Your mistake was to confront them alone, you have to come back with a strong team to defeat them, but how?
Tommy tried to stand up and asked:
- Wouldn't friends accept to leave restaurants and pursue a way of living a decent and comfortable life?
I didn't want to frustrate him with my negative answer, as none of them would want to leave their comfort zone and plunge into the unknown. Even the exercises are harsh. How can they continue with them without their goal being a temporal goal, so that they are enthusiastic and not give up?
I said hopefully:
- I found her.
He looked at me anxiously, and I continued:
- You must create in their minds your goal so that it becomes their goal as well, so that they become a team for you to lead them towards change for the better. That is the best thing that you should make sure to draw in their minds constantly so that it becomes their obsession and desire for the future.
Tommy understood what I meant, and with time he sought to woo the rest of the restaurant cats, and talk before them about the market cats’ lives and the blessings they could get. Of course, he met resistance at first, but he did not give up until he formed a team of five cats who shared the same vision with him and I was one of them. Tommy is my friend, and even if I wasn't convinced of his goal at the time, I wouldn't leave him alone. A year of harsh training, during which my life changed, I became fit and fast after I was slow and fat, I felt a strange force running through my body, I began to love fishing and see it as the way of life, the free food in the restaurant did not satisfy my pride, I no longer enjoyed it, because raw food is much more delicious than what it makes Humans, I even wondered how I had been eating it all these years, cooked and seasoned, how??
On the morning of the promised day, Tommy gathered us together and gave us a sermon that was no more than a few words but that motivated us to move forward without fear. We headed towards the battlefield, and I stopped them, saying:
- A moment guys, I see that we part and surround the enemies, Tommy, you are known to them and as an easy enemy to them, so go ahead and we will go around the market as soon as the bad cats gather to get you we go out around them and catch them by surprise.
The plan proceeded as we drew it, and indeed when Tommy arrived at the market, the fat cats came out of their lairs, and came towards him, led by a black cat with evil laughter, saying:
- You again? It seems that you forgot our sharp claws, let's remind him of it guys,
they were twice more than us, but we didn't allow this to dampen our resolve. The cheers of the masses from the sellers resounded. Their joy exceeded our joy in eliminating those hateful cats. The spoils of chicken and fish fell upon us. Tommy said:
Thank you, friends, for believing in me and my dream until it became yours. I hope that you have found the result of your patience and perseverance. From now on, neither humiliation nor hunger will befall you.
Exclaimed everyone, came to me and said:
- Miao, thank you , my friend, accompanied me in every station of my dream stations, but I was supportive of strong me, thank you
smiled at him, and I said Mrepetta on his shoulder:
- I am from him thank you , Tommy, changed my life, I'm really much better, thank you
We joined the comrades to celebrate this victory, hoping that this joy will last forever.
21.930 SRY