The Truth About Cats and Dogs

Chapter two on causality:

I found myself coming off of an 8.75 hour shift at work and driving home at 1am a couple days ago when I found myself stricken with the memory of the one and only occurence I in my life where I created roadkill (not something I think of regularly). This was about 10 years ago.

At the time I had assumed that I had run over a rock or something but my friends informed me that it was a cat. Upon recalling this event I realized that I had always assumed that the cat was an orange tabby type cat although I had never seen it. I began to think that perhaps it was a black cat and that in that case I couldn't be blamed for not having seen it since it was nighttime (realizing of course that the fact that I had not seen it at all makes the point of the color of the cat rather moot).

Upon this thought I became compelled to drive back to the place where I had hit this cat to look for some sign of something, (I've decided to open my mind to these types of thoughts more recently for reasons I intend on posting up here at some point), without actually having the faintest idea of what that might be. So I decided to follow this inspiration and drive the 20ish minutes out of my way to the road down by the Abbotsford Airport where this had occured.

I drove slowly (actually below the speed limit) to the place where all this had happened, all the while keeping my eyes and mind open for whatever I was being directed to this place to see. I passed a security guard and an old person walking with his/her bike but neither gave me any sort of sensation that they were what I was looking for.

Then as I approached the place where I was headed I saw a black dog, probably a rottweiler, walking on the road in precisely the same area where I had hit the cat. It wandered off the road and I drove up next to it and we just looked at each other for a few moments before I decided to drive back home.

I took two lessons from this experience: 1) Everything happens for a reason, and 2) which I have decided to learn from metaphorically, sometimes when you're looking for a cat, you find a dog.