About to Sleep

My family has a pet cat named Temi. His name is an anagram for 'item' which means 'black' in Bahasa Indonesia. Though he isn't all black (not like Sailor Moon's Luna), the name makes him easily distinguished once compared to the other pet cat of mine, Belek, whose fur is almost all-white.

Temi is not really a sleepyhead like common pet cats. He is more like one who often pull an all-nighter and one who loves to make moves, like jumping to the upmost part of a dresser, sniffing foods as if he really knows that they were freshly fried, following people (mostly my mother), approaching the family members when they were eating (though he's already eaten his foods), and doing other things which sometimes make you feel he's annoying, or simply cute and clueless. Everything Temi does makes me and my family realize that he behaves more like a stray cat than a pet one. This makes him totally different from his sibling, Belek, who's more shy, silent, and able to behave as a cat who is raised and kept well.

One night, Temi came to my room. I knew from the beginning that he wanted to sleep on the floor because he had been moving all around, as if he was searching something, then stopped in front of a framed painting that I haven't hunged on the wall. I learned from the past observations that it was my pet cats' usual behaviour when they were about to sleep. They tend to wander themselves around, then stopped at one place to rest. Somehow I was inspired to capture some pictures of him as memories.

These are some photos when he was still wide-awake, doe-eyed.

You can see that in some photos below, Temi's eyes was about to close. He was getting sleepy, I think.

Though both of his eyes were already closed, his head was still moving. 

A few minutes later, his feet began to draw closer to each other...

... and Temi positioned his head on his feet...

... as if he was telling me that he started sleeping.

To me, it is always somehow spiritually comforting to see a cat sleeping. It feels like I'm relaxed and all of bad things happened to me has gone by the time I saw the calm and shameless face of him. Keeping pets indeed makes you feel better and more optimist. I'm grateful of having both Belek and Temi in my life.