Stray cat
You can put a bowl of food outside every morning. You can give it a name. You can sit on the doorstep and let it get comfortable around you. But when night comes, that cat is going to go back out there. That's just what a cat does. People think feeding the cat will change something. It often doesn't. It might hang around for a while, but outside is in its nature. The cat is always going to do what the cat does. You decided to start feeding it and along the way convinced yourself it was now yours. You saw it running around the neighbourhood before you ever put that food out. You knew what it was. It didn't hide what it was, you just chose to focus on the fact that even though it was a stray, it was a cute little cat. That's not the cat's fault. The cat isn't doing anything wrong. It's not deceiving you. It's just being what it's always been. You're the one who started telling yourself a different story, you became delulu in hoping you can make the...