Dear Human 💕,

I noticed you’re struggling with your feelings. You are one of those rational humans.

Well, I understand the struggle. I used to express my feelings like most cats as shown in the chart above.

Admittedly, that made it hard for my humans to sense how I am doing. I started to pay more attention to how I feel and I am expressing my feelings differently in this life. I start by asking myself How do I feel? all the time now.

The Wheel of Cat Feelings that one of my humans designed for me is really helpful:

In addition to showing my feelings with my body language and facial expressions, I also meow about them a lot. Unfortunately, humans most of the time just don’t get it. They usually ask What is it, Squeaks? and come up and pet me. When I am sad, I don’t have a treat, I hardly ever get one. The only time they always get me is when I am happy to see birds and I chitter meow about it. Then, they check out the birds with me.

Of course, humans are emotionally far more complicated than cats. Humans have way more feelings than cats do. And usually, humans don’t just experience one feeling. Instead they experience a lot of feelings at the same time. Meow! And to make things even more complicated those feelings often seem to contradict each other. For, example:

A recent graduate student is excited and proud that they graduated. They are sad, as they will not see their college friends that much anymore. They are curious about the job they are going to start soon. They are worried that they will not be doing well at the new job.

I know, human feelings can be so confusing. Here’s a Wheel of Human Feelings that some human I don’t know created. It can help you to figure out how you feel when you are asking yourself How do I feel?

Like I said, it’s complicated and the chart is tough to read here. You should go to their website on your computer and check it out. You can spin it!

Use the Wheel of Feelings and ask yourself more often How do I feel?

Yours,
Cat 🐾