"A few quips... Gigi sounds like me: Unhurried, uncomplicated, portly, enthusiastic about meals. Ha! We have a cat with a similar problem. She knows how to go out the cat door into the patio, but not how to come in. Yet, on occasion, for a moment she seems to figure it out. But only on occasion. As to your larger point, I recall Rev. Robert Schuller once saying, "When the thing you want is not right, God says 'no'; when the timing is not right, he says 'slow'; when you are not right he says 'grow'; but, when everything is right, he says 'go!'" How many times in my life have a rushed into something (relationships, new job, spending hard-earned cash on some foolish thing, etc) that, in the end, paid few, if any, dividends. I usually ended up hurt, dismayed or frustrated. (And not just a little feeling sorry for myself.) As I get older, I'm learning a little bit of patience is a good thing. Still, the heart wants what it wants when it wants it, and has no capacity for logic or reason. How..." - Paul Chaney