From real life. “Zofia is 40 and still lives with her parents”: When they told her to seek her own happiness, she brought home a cat

Once upon a time there was a girl. Not quite a girl anymore – she was a woman, forty years old.

She lived with her parents. As it happened, her parents wanted her to be happy. “Find happiness for yourself!” they often repeated. They looked after her, surrounded her with care.

Zofia worked as a lawyer, and after work she stayed at home with her parents. From time to time Zofia met someone, but the suitors were not the right ones. Her mother joked about their upbringing, and her father comically emphasized their illiteracy. Zofia loved her parents very much and did not want to cause them any distress. And then she found a kitten. A small, wet, frozen kitten right by the entrance.

The heart is not made of stone. She picked it up, carried it into the house, and poured it some milk. The kitten drank eagerly, even smacking its lips. At first, her parents watched in silence. Stunned. And then they started screaming. Not just screaming – screaming. Especially when the kitten made a puddle on the floor.

-Take him out of the apartment! – they shouted. No, they weren't cruel. They simply knew that the kitten would scratch the furniture, rip off the wallpaper and ruin the parquet. Mud, stench, ruin in a four-room apartment! The parents had already made a decision. The kitten should go to good people. Or at least to a shelter.

Dad, clutching his heart, quickly looked up the address of the nearest shelter on his phone. Mom, interrupting Dad, also screamed and threw Zofia out the door together with the unfortunate furball.

Zofia got into the car and hugged the kitten to her chest. The kitten fell asleep trustingly. And then she suddenly realized that she was forty years old. And that she had nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not even a small corner where the cat could live. There are many rooms in the apartment, but none of them belong to her. It's her parents' apartment. She just lives there. She was on her way to the shelter and she was crying. She regretted that she was bringing a kitten and not herself. But at the same time, she pulled over to the side of the road and looked for something on her tablet and found it. She called, made an appointment, went, looked around. She rented an apartment. For six months.

She paid a deposit, moved in. She took the kitten out of the bag. That was it. She started living alone. Her owners didn't care if she had a cat, where she went or who she communicated with. The most important thing was that she paid on time. And she did. She would pay twice as much, she was so happy to live with Mruczek.

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