When I was younger, I used to say that the only thing better than being beautiful is being smart. And if you can have those two traits combined, then more power to you -- you're lucky. Smart people get ahead, but beautiful people get promoted, and that's just the way life is. If you think looks don't matter and play no role in office politics, in school, in your career or otherwise, then you're probably a homely person.
But what happens if you are truly beautiful and you have no brain?
One of the reasons I am attracted to cats is because they are smart. Like dogs, they are loyal, but unlike dogs, they are incredibly sneaky, manipulative and well, let's just say a cat lost in the woods would never starve to death. Cats are capable of doing the unthinkable. They can open locked doors by staring at them. They don't always use their incredible brains because they don't have to. Many times they are spoiled rotten.
My cats have us wrapped around their little paws. We are at their beck and call and do whatever is asked of us. The cats make their needs known. They are excellent communicators.
Except for Jackson, the ragdoll, who lives with us in Land Park, Sacramento. He spends hours gazing at himself in the mirror. But he doesn't have the lick of common sense given to a gopher. My friend Myrl Jeffcoat calls him a "blonde" for all that entails. I'm beginning to think she is right. His favorite thing to do right now is not drink out of the water fountain like the other cats, but to splash the water all over the ceramic floor and then knock off the top of the fountain, just for the fun of it!
Photo: Elizabeth Weintraub, Jackson the Flamepoint Ragdoll
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Cats are indeed very clever, and they seem to know how to manipulate their human pets very well.
Jackson needs to meet my cat Alley. She decided that the water fountain was for the same thing as well. Finally had to give up and go back to a regular waterbowl as I got tired of slipping on the floor.
Hi Malcolm: Cats know how to make their needs known, and they are not shy about it. We should all be as clever as cats.
Hi Cindy: So, what did you do? Did you just give up the water fountain? He's been getting worse about it. He sticks his head under the water and gets soaked, and he doesn't care!
I hate to take out the water fountain because the other two cats would really miss it. But I am tired of mopping up the floor!
Oh yes, Jackson, one of my favorite cats! Everytime I see him, he brings a smile to my face, and a chuckle to my lips. Never met a cat with a personality like his before. And if you get frustrated with him, Elizabeth, he knows where he can come live. I'm a little more laid back over here. . .LOL
As for the ole beauty and brains thing. I have a few of my own thoughts on that. Beauty no longer is gifted to a few by benevolent gods. A whole lot of it can be acquired in a plastic surgeon's office. And beauty can open doors for you, but it can just as quickly slam them on your backside, if you don't have something of substance to back that beauty up.
As for brains. We see a whole lot of folks shuffling around with brains, but they lack integrity. . . Unfortunately, a bunch of them are in Washington, DC and Wall Street!
That's my tribute to the Occupy Wall Street folks this morning. I'm not demonstrating - The pen is always mightier than the sword!
Oh, Myrl, he wants to chew on everything in sight. It's not like he is teething. He simply has this devil-may-care attitude. La-la, la-la. This morning he tried to chomp on the newspaper right off the edge of the kitchen table, and then he tried to eat the table.
Perhaps you should have named him, Fang! But if you were to spend a couple of minutes inside his head, you'd understand his devil-may-care attitude. It simply isn't his problem - It's your's:-)