7 Lives and 7 Lessons
Miguel Angel Romero
All of us are born with one single life, we need to take advantage of it and take care of what we do, but not all of us are born with this curse, there is one animal on this planet that is blessed with 7 lifes, the cat. Cats are well-known for their cunning instinct and their multiple lifes that they have had since they were born, also they enjoy the fish a lot and during their living they learn from the mistakes they make during their whole life and most of the times one mistake means one breath that death would take away from him.
Nick is a black cat that lives in the coastline about 20 km from the sea, all the mondays he used to go besides a fish store and take a truck to the ocean for getting food for the whole week, but one day as he used to make, he wake up and run to the store for getting his transport but when he arrive there, the truck wasn’t there, so he wait and wait until he fell asleep in the middle of the road, causing a car to run over him at full speed, ending his first life.
After that, nick wakes up and during the day he starts to get flashbacks of his first death and also remembers what he learned, “I would not go to sleep in the middle of the road ever again” For the rest of the day he goes to his house and starts looking for ideas to reach the ocean, but there weren’t many options excepting for the most difficult and dangerous, walk through the 20 km until the beach. After a long wait and a lot of thinking, Nick decides that if he doesn’t take the risk of going walking all the way through there, he will run out of food and he will die.
Wrapped in courage and with his hair standing on end, he went out in search of his food. At the first kilometer he reached the road where he died the first time and even if it was midnight he didn’t sleep there because he learned that the road isn’t a place to sleep. After avoiding making another mistake he started to follow the road that his truck used to take and began to walk all the way to the beach, during the first 2 hours of walking he saw in the distance a really big black cloud and he didn’t care a lot about it, but it was one of the worst mistakes that he made in his journey, because later on he faced a huge electric storm that made him realize that some kind of clouds meant that there was danger behind them and after learning this a massive lighting bolt fell on him, killing Nick instantly and leaving him totally fried, giving an end to his second life…
Suddenly he wakes up, again. “Oh no please don’t tell me it happened again” Well it happened again, as Nick died for the second time he is now in his third life, and with this he learned a valuable lesson, “I will look for a refuge when the black clouds come out” Making its way toward his destination. Now he was prepared, determined and decided, nothing could stop him, except for his lack of knowledge about other species because that is the reason why he died for a third time.
Once again, he leaves his home and returns to the road where he died the first time and again he starts following the line as the last two times, then he gets to the place where he died the last time, and in the moment he sees the clouds, it instantly looks for a refuge in a nearby tree which was been habited by a family of pigeons.
Nick was scared, he hadn’t interacted with other animals ever before, so he tried to get closer to them and get some indications about his destination. With a tremendous amount of fear in his body he said “Hi”. At that moment a big family of eight pigeons approaches in front of Nick, he is perplexed and paralyzed. “I never thought the pigeons would look so scary” After that the pigeons told Nick: “If you seek our wisdom, you must first satisfy our hunger.”
Due to this, Nick started to apply his high IQ to discover which food he would give to the scary family of pigeons, so by the next minute he thought that the best tribute he could give to them was a juicy salmon that he had a long time ago, so he took his salmon out of his little bag and give it to the pigeons, but he didn’t know that this kind of birds didn’t have the same likes as him. After he gave the fish to the pigeons, they instantly started to attack Nick in a wild way, killing him again.
His fourth life begins, as Nick made the last three times he set up his bag but this time he takes some corn seeds for the family of pigeons.
Once again he reached the point where he got before, then he offered the pigeons the corn seeds instead of the salmon and they agreed to give him information about his destiny. “You may follow the arrows in the sky, they will be a really good guide” After hearing this Nick waited until the storm stopped and then he continued his confusing journey to follow some… ¿arrows?
Nick was looking to the road, to the trees, and even into the lakes but none of them contained the arrows that he was looking for in the last hours. He was exhausted and as the time passed he was getting more hungry and his hopes to find the beach were decreasing each time more. Now Nick was on the floor and he didn’t want to suffer anymore, but then a glimmer of hope appeared out of nowhere when Nick saw in the sky a flock of birds that looked kind of weird, “Why those birds look like a bunch of arrows”.
Finally Nick discovered that the arrows which the pigeons refer was the birds in the sky and casually these birds were on their way to the beach, after Nick realized that they could help him, then he shouted. “¡Heeey, I need help!” The bunch of birds instantly landed where Nick was sitting and he immediately noticed that these birds weren’t like the pigeons, they were different, they were seagulls. Nick never saw birds like these, they were bigger than the pigeons and they had whiter feathers than the other birds, one of these seagulls had a fish in his mouth but the others didn’t, so he was guiding the whole flock to the beach.
Nick was desperate and because of this he asked the birds if they could carry him until they reached the ocean, they agreed but with the condition that if they took him there he had to give them half of what he caught, it was a tough decision but then he accept the deal and hopped on the back of the bird, and it was another mistake because after a few minutes in the sky, they faced a wind current that made Nick falling from the bird into the ground, killing him for the fourth time.
Nick was exhausted, his legs were hurting and he was running out of lifes, which meant he got to be more careful. After a long walk, he returned to the point where he met the seagulls and this time he got a rope to tie up himself and not fall because of the wind.
Now he was ready and after a long flight, they arrived at the coastal city, which in the seashore contained the Pacific Ocean and inside of it the fishes he was looking for. Indeed this was a really difficult mission but if he wanted to live another day, he would be forced to make a tough route to reach his destiny.
Nick was thinking of a way to reach the beach without dying again, but this wasn’t going to be easy, because now Nick had to face all the dangers of the city and he wasn’t prepared for that, anyway, he started walking and then he climbed a building which was on top of the city and this one contained a web of cables that could take him straight to the ocean.
Nick died again, I think he forgot to read the poster that said high voltage beside it.
Once again, he woke up but he was paralyzed, he realized that he just had two lives remaining which meant the chances to reach the ocean were less. “I don’t think I’m gonna do it, but I gotta try” By the second time he reached the city but this time he tried to get under the roofs of the buildings, basically walking by the streets.
From one moment to another rapidly a savage group of dogs faced Nick in an alleyway, he was really confused and in a really low voice he asked: “Something’s wrong?” Of course, there was something wrong because Nick didn’t realize he had invaded the territory of the dogs in the city and the street dogs don’t really like visits in their neighborhood.
After that the dogs instantly attacked him, and when he blinked his eyes, he was now in his last life, his seventh life, his last chance to get the fish and come back home safe.
Nick was desperate, he didn’t know what to do and you could see the fear that he was feeling at that moment in his deep green eyes, but then he realized that he had already gotten over all the obstacles and that if he made everything right, he could reach his destination.
So he went out one last time and followed his own steps until he reached the city again, but now the cars didn’t kill him and not even the other species could hurt him because during his whole lifes he learned a lot of teachings that take him to his goal. 8
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