Spring around every corner

There once was a cat. He really liked to watch time go through the window. He watched as summer melted into fall, as fall turned into winter, as spring replaced winter, and as after spring came summer. He watched the seasons change a hundred times and suddenly he realized that he was old. Old as the world.

It was winter's end when he realized this. He also didn't want to celebrate spring like all the other years. He went looking for the spring. The cat reached the city and wondered in every street, looking around every corner looking for spring. But no matter how hard he looked he couldn't find it. There wasn't a soul in the city also who knew where the spring was. The cat was devastated.

Until he found a very old dog. This dog was living in the city's most desolate street. When he first saw the cat, he already knew who he was and what he was looking for. He told the cat how to find spring. And he also told the cat that the cat was young in his heart but old in his appearance. "Lovely old fella" the dog silently laughed. The dog knew that the cat was just a kitten in his heart. As the cat walked away he jumped in a puddle, caught a dead leaf and hummed a little song.

Days passed and the cat did nothing. He waited for spring to come himself. One morning the spring finally came. It was beautiful with blossoms and little rain. The snow slowly melted away. And so did the cat's mind, heart, tail and also his life. Right then, when the cat had seen spring's beginning for one-hundredth time his life melted away fully.