Teacher asks her middle schoolers to draw her cat after winter break exams; the results are pawsitively uplifting and wholesomely whimsical

Who would have thought that some hissterical drawings of a cat would be the thing that made us laugh until our stomachs hurt today?

We've all heard the saying "laughter is the best medicine", and there's an element of truth in there. A good joke can purrfectly change your mood to something more pawsitive, but in a world where everything around us seems dark and grim, a good joke is getting harder and harder to find. The problem, in our eyes, is that most of the jokes lack a sense of authenticity. They're trying too hard to be funny, which, ironically, makes them not funny at all.

This is why we love cats, they're funny without even trying to be so. Watching them trip over their own feet, knock things off of tables just because, or become pawsitively entranced by the squirrels outside the window just makes us giggle because it's real. That's why this post is so absurdly uplifting and wholesomely whimsical - it's open and honest about what it is, which is some hilarious drawings of a teacher's cute cat. She asked her students to draw her cat after their winter break exams, and the results were so heartwarmingly silly we couldn't not share them.

Some of the purrtraits are quite good for a middle school artist, and some, well, some went a more artistic route. Why are you going to giggle as soon as you see them? It's like what we said above - they're authentically funny without trying to be so. Honest. Unashamed. Each one gets better as you go (or worse, depending on your opinion), so make sure you get all the way to the end before moving on.