Everyday Canvas

Cat-and-Mouse Moment

Prompt: "I am still a cat when I see a mouse." Jane Austen
Jane was referring to her weakness for tea. What is your weakness or cat and mouse moment?

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My weakness as to cat-and-mouse moments is choosing flight instead of fight. I am not a fighter, but if it comes to fight when I must, beware. Probably that is why I choose flight instead. I would hate to hurt anyone in any way.

If addictions are weaknesses, I also have a weakness for tea like Jane Austen, and for babies, animals, nature, those I love, and life in general. My everyday ongoing weakness, however, is reading. If a day passes without me reading anything from a book or Kindle or Nook, that day feels wasted for me.

Coming back to Jane Austen, I don’t think her major weakness was tea. It was more like finding a man like Mr. Darcy. I think, in her real life, she replaced him with tea. As it was portrayed in the PBS movie, Miss Austen Regrets, Jane says:
“The only way to get a man like Mr. Darcy is to make him up.
I like him gentle like manner.
You have something much more powerful and something much more desirable than experience. You have imagination.”

So sad, when we have to fashion our partners in our imagination...instead of accepting and loving people as they are.