Bad days happen to the very best of us, but it is not the day which is the obstacle, it is what we decide to do with it. Which is why we made this list of uplifting cat pics to give you something good to do.

After all, starting something is the hardest step you will ever take. Once you have started it is much easier to keep going and get deeper and deeper in to the fine details. But getting your engine going, that is the tough part. So considering that is the main obstacle to overcome we figured we would get out ahead of the problem and deal with it for you. Hence this lovely list of mood boosting cat children doing cute and crazy things.

Once you have given yourself a good scroll of these meowtivating cat children then there is a good chance you will go on to see more, to feel better and to generally be more on top of being proactive in your self care. As such, we invite you to jump in and get the ball rolling on feeling better and taking this day from a bad one to a brilliant one.
 

Where is the line between a personal favor and a professional service?

After helping his neighbor set up a printer as a quick favor, this software engineer found that the neighbor spread the word throughout the entire apartment building at a surprising rate that he was a "tech genius" who was quite happy to fix everyone's electronics for free. This led to a steady increase in requests from other neighbors to help fix broken electronics and address other IT issues. This quickly turned a corner from just annoying into unpleasant demands when the original neighbor came back around, looking to have their laptop repaired. When the software engineer drew a boundary, the neighbor responded by disparaging their actual work as a remote software engineer, saying that he was just "sitting at a computer all day anyway."

There's a bit of humorous irony in here somewhere in the fact that they are a software engineer, and the whole "computer" part of the affair is where the similarities between their work and repairing electronics begin and end.

In many families, parents try to provide what they think is best. It's an act of care, but are they actually making their kids feel cared for?

Even when their intentions are good, they might not be meeting their child's actual needs. This can leave parents feeling unappreciated, while children feel unheard, or as if their voices don't really matter. It becomes a frustrating situation for both sides. Sometimes, parents assume they know what their kids want or will appreciate, but that's not always the case. It's important to listen to what the child says, instead of making decisions based on one's own beliefs of what is best. But how often do parents actually ask?

Couples share things with each other: toothpaste, closet space, bills, and even their hard-earned work discounts. 

However, when this woman, working at an internet customer service call center found out that her toxic ex was still trying to reap the benefits of her employee discount months after they had broken up, she refused to let it stand. That's her discount, and after promoting herself to a life of singledom and breaking free from his toxic tendencies, she wasn't about to continue sharing what was rightfully hers. 

Close your eyes and imagine the softest, happiest cat smile. Now open them, here you have 25 of them. 

Scientists have yet to formally study the effect of a smiling cat on the human nervous system. This is a failure of modern science. Because anyone who has ever locked eyes with a cat mid-grin, that soft, sleepy, I-have-everything-I-could-ever-want expression, knows exactly what happens. Something in your chest unclenches. Your shoulders drop half an inch. You exhale, all is good.

While giving an evaluation, these bosses pointed out a few things that their worker needs to improve on, but this employee isn't convinced that their bosses are right about that

Ever been voluntold to do something? 

It's when your boss, or someone in a position of power, strongly suggests that you do something outside your job description. Or they just straight-up volunteer on your behalf, agreeing to do extra work, which they assign to you. 

They volunteer you to do this thing, but they make it clear that you must do it. You don't have a choice in the matter. If you do try to refuse it, you'll be informed that you're not being a team player, actually. 

Imagine how much of her inheritance she actually threw out by accident.

Grandparents are known for collecting a lot of junk. Their houses are full of tchotchkes and knick-knacks that they've acquired over their long periods of life. Most of them are useless, and when you have to sort through their whole lives after they pass away, you have to decide what to keep and what's trash. But you never know what might secretly be worth a lot more than it seems.

After inheriting her grandmother's apartment, our purrfectly loving cat owner moved in and renovated the antique home. The only thing she kept was a beautiful vintage armchair, which her cat seemed to be obsessed with. The cat kept scratching at it from underneath, and when she went to fix it, something dropped from inside the chair. It turns out that her grandmother had hidden part of her inheritance inside and didn't tell anyone! Thanks, kitty!

Getting your first job is a milestone. Learning to set boundaries with the people you love? That's the part nobody prepares you for.

At 16, most kids are figuring out how to balance school, social life, and a first job. This kid is doing all of that while also navigating one of the trickiest financial conversations you can have, the one with a parent who needs a little nudge back toward independence.

Cats are true nap professionals. They sleep more than they live, but they can look exhausted even after sleeping all day. Can they take a nap without someone writing a caption? No. That's why I dedicated this post to sleepy cat memes! Scroll down, time for a cat nap.

Wait, you're not supposed to slee… OK, whatever, sleep anywhere you want. You're too adorable to argue with anyway. 

In their world, every surface is a potential bed, but we'll never understand how they choose their sleeping spots. Our honest reaction is just: ????. How do they define comfort? We never know. What we do know is that, in cat logic, a cardboard box will always beat anything else. Ahhhh, this is premium comfort, hooman. Luxury, king-sized, 5 stars, coziest cushion in the world, would sleep here forever, love it. Thanks, delivery man.  

When you've got your employees working overtime all the time, big giant mistakes are inbound

I know the technology sector loves overworking employees, for reasons I don't fully understand. Like, it's very common in the video game industry to have crunch times: as the game creeps closer and closer to its release date, developers are forced to work almost around the clock (think 90 hour weeks!) to get it done. 

Why can't they just hire more workers? No idea. But it's quite a common thing in this industry. And if workers don't comply with these rules, then they'll be fired with haste. 

This dude doesn't work in video games. They work in network security. That is a much more serious position to be in, because they handle not just customer passwords, but like, all of their client's information, spanning 500 servers. 

The Cat Distribution System has many mystical ways to bring the purrfect pawrent and cat into each other's lives. And in this story we get to see how it brought a life saving EMT and a tiny kitten together.

Two souls who are rare to find just walking about town. Yet, when the moment came, they were both right where they needed to be in order to meet each other. That is something that only the Cat Distribution System can do. With its magic it made sure that at the exact moment this EMT would be driving towards a call, this kitten would be in the purrfect spot to be seen crawling in the road without getting smushed.

Sparking the purrfect meet cute and setting in motion a chain of events that bonded the couple and set the tone for what will be an incredibly sweet and wholesome cat-pawrent relationship. So we invite you to step in and get yourselves a good read of this story and have yourself a tissue handy to help mop up the tears of excitement and joy. We are talking big soppy crocodile tears.
 

Always be careful when you decide to take on extra work.

This 26-year-old man, who was fresh out of law school with an equal mix of hunger and entitlement, believed he could do a better job at preparing case files than the seasoned paralegal at the firm, who had decades of experience under her belt. Yes, this was the kind of dude who probably felt like he could do a better job just because he had a fancy degree when, in fact, he could not yet tell that his coworker's responsibilities required a totally different skillset than his own.

This all came to a head during a crucial meeting with one of the firm's big clients. The client made a simple request to pull up a file that, under the paralegal's system, would have taken just a few seconds to retrieve. However, since the new guy insisted on pulling all the files himself, his new and improved so-called "process" was finally put to the test. It did not pass.

Who could have asked for a more purrfect birthday gift from the cat distribution system?

This woman was going through a difficult time, but it's times like those where the cat distribution system works in your favor. There's an empathy and meaning behind the system that isn't to be ignored. As they say, the cat distribution system works in mysterious ways. It was her birthday and this sweet boy came to her friend's apartment. She was in the midst of a breakup with one ex, and another one was back in her life in a not-so-nice way. Even with her friend things weren't going so well. She found herself all alone that night, except for the presence of this little animal. She kept him for four days, and brought him to the vet to check for a microchip, but he didn't have one, and he also wasn't fixed. Despite all her hardships, he was still there for her, and he saved her. She immediately formed a bond with him as he purred non-stop and cuddled with her. But alas, she had to give him up to a friend due to her mother's cat allergies. 

Though she doesn't have him as hers anymore, she still thinks of him and misses him everyday. Life doesn't always work out exactly as we planned, but we can still appreciate the little acts of love we've been given. 

Working remotely was supposed to be the arrangement that gave professionals their autonomy back, the ability to manage their own time, set their own pace, and not have someone hovering over their shoulder every thirty minutes. And then some people took that concept and decided it meant calling their colleague five times a day until the colleague's phone becomes a source of genuine dread.

Even if you don't celebrate Easter or have any belief in the cosmos having a meaning, it doesn't change the beauty that comes when a little calico cat is found peacefully sitting under a tree on Easter. A happy holiday for this family. 

And she named the calico, Princess Charlotte Eden. She was out running errands and driving home when she spotted the indelible calico under a tree. She was shaking had no pawrent or other cats nearby. The woman went back to the tree to find her family but no more cats came out. She named her Princess Charlotte because the woman's name is Victoria, so she wanted to keep the name in the England Royal Family – Queen Victoria and Princess Charlotte. And she chose Eden because she was sitting under a tree, like as if she was sitting under a tree in the Garden of Eden (and incorporating Easter themes). She says she's not religious, but it was a memorable moment and the best Easter egg she could have found. 

It's almost storybook-like to find a cat sitting under a tree on Easter. She chose to take it home because everything just felt too magical. Easter is already a day tied to renewal, softness, innocence, and new beginnings, and to stumble upon a small, unexpected and abandoned life in the middle of that symbolism makes everything feel so much more meaningful. Read the full story below. 

Not all heroes wear capes: some just chase carts like it's a low-budget action movie.

A worker on a lunch break stopped by a store cafe to relax, grabbing some food and a book before heading back to work. When it started raining, he stepped outside to close the window of his truck, leaving everything behind for just a moment.

As he jogged through the parking lot, a man pushing a cart ahead of him suddenly panicked and ran off, abandoning the cart completely. Confused but curious, he stopped it and discovered a boxed microwave inside, clearly something that hadn't been paid for.

He brought the cart back into the store and explained the situation to security, who admitted the shoplifter likely mistook him for undercover staff. The accidental intervention turned into a small win, as the stolen item was recovered and the worker returned to his well-earned break.

Keep your eyes open to animals in need, and you may end up saving a life when you least expect it. 

Life as a stray cat is something that we, as owners of very spoiled cats who have everything they could ever need, will never quite understand. We don't know what it is that they go through out there. All that we know is that their life, compared to the lives of our house cats, is insanely difficult. They have to fight for every scrap of food, for every bit of shelter, and basically everything else in their lives. And although some street cats are good at it, maybe even like it, kittens… they are not built for that. 

Kittens get abandoned by their mommas more often thn we would like to think. The runts. The ones who are a little weaker, a little slower. We don't like thinking about it, but that's nature. And that is what this kitty was. She got abandoned, and she found herself having to fight for that food that she needed. Only she wasn't ready for how difficult it would be, and she didn't quite manage to survive on her own. She needed help from us - from humans. 

Is it fair for both spouses to return to work once the kids have left the house? At what age is it appropriate to tell your kids that they are on their own? 

It's rough out there, and even as an adult, any support you can get from your parents goes a long way and is something that the majority of us now aging millennials acknowledge and appreciate as we still struggle to piece together the lives that we were promised as kids, the lives that our parents could somehow afford, where we can not even with less education and career advancement. 

Do you ever get the feeling that we're running out of ideas for movies? 

It seems like for every original movie that gets produced, there are 10 sequels, prequels, or remakes crowding movie theater marquees. And one particularly popular type of movie that has cropped up in recent years are movies based on intellectual property, aka a movie about a brand.

"Rehoming" is a word that has a meaning. Don't use it if you don't intend to follow through with it.

Rehoming a cat because of a baby has to be one of the most difficult decisions to make. One of our worst nightmares is having a baby who is deathly allergic to cats. So far, that hasn't happened, and we don't know what we will do if it does. So, in some ways, we have sympathy for the woman in this story. In all other ways, we're inclined to think that she's a liar. 

Keep your story straight. That is what we would tell her. At first, she was tossing her cat onto her sister-in-law because she "couldn't handle her right now". Then, it was because her toddler was allergic to cats. First, it was a permanent rehoming of the cat. Then, she returned, demanding the cat back as if it was always the plan for her to do so. Something is off about the whole thing, but the only thing that we know for sure is that the cat seems much happier in his new home than in his old one, and we don't think that a person like this woman is someone who should have any pets at all.