“THE CAT HAS HIS OR HER DAY.”

SHORT- STORY
“THE CAT HAS HIS OR HER DAY.”

It was a bright and sunny day and a slight breeze had been blowing around as the trees and the plants danced on to the tunes of the wind. The boy looked outside and thought that this was a good day for him as the sun rays were penetrating in his bedroom through the open window. He then decided that this was the best day to look for his life partner and thus he began to browse through all the matrimonial advertisements and ultimately he had chosen one as she was pretty and nice and looked very impressive. As he was just about to send his marriage proposal to the girl, he looked out of his bedroom window and saw a cat very clean and brown in colour walking majestically in front of his balcony. Until this day he had not seen any cat walking around any of the houses in his surroundings and thus he knew that this marriage proposal would not click on. But he decided to send it. After a week, there had been no response from her but he was slightly hopeful and decided to send a reminder to her, just as he was about to send it again he saw the same cat on his balcony again. He then knew that this proposal would not work but he decided to send her a reminder again. Two weeks had passed and there was no message from her and then for the last time he decided to send her another reminder but before this he had to go to the temple and as the bells rang in the temple he entered the temple and prayed on. As he finished praying and came out of the temple he was still thinking about the girl and about the reminder that he was about to send and just at that moment the same cat had crossed his path and now he felt it was certain that his proposal for marriage would be declined but after thinking a lot about it, yet again he did send her the reminder.
Within two days atlast, he gets a message that she has:-
“Declined his proposal for marriage.”
He then began thinking superstitions do have a meaning. When a cat or a black cat crosses your path, the sweeping brooms when you are about on your way to the office or for an interview or starting a new thing on a Tuesday or Friday, it is really better to go in with these superstitions as the thoughts had arised in him.
Beware of the cats that cross your path, the sweeping brooms and avoid doing new things on Tuesdays and Fridays he warns others too.
“Does the cat have his or her own day?” The boy talks to himself, “The cat cannot have his day it should be her day!”