Cats & Dogs

Today I discovered something about myself: I. Am. A Cat.

There's a particular reason why I chose to capitalize cat. Here's the backstory:

Tonight, I was hanging out with two of my friends and somehow we started talking about how people choose to make friends and what not. She said that she was a dog person because dogs willingly give affection and want to be friendly with everyone, or at least those that deserve it.

She started talking about how cats reserve their friendship and affection and make you work to earn it. She said that the reason she wasn't a cat person was because she didn't want to have to try so hard to be friends with someone; that she really just wanted to be friends with everyone.

I realized that I'm the exact opposite. I have no desire to be friends with everyone, even everyone that's nice, which sometimes makes me feel a little bad because I'm blowing off perfectly nice people. In truth, I'm not sure how I chose the friends I have (or why they wanted to be my friends in the first place) just because I am a little socially distant. But I know that I manage to make it very difficult for people to be friends with me. Because I am a Cat.