Heathcliff stared at the horizon, took a deep breath and seated under an oak tree.
He closed his eyes, and listened carefully the sounds in the distance...He could hear the wind whispering through the branches of the trees in the surrounding area, and birds chirping as well.
While listening at the sounds of nature, Heathcliff felt oddly insignificant, as he suddenly started thinking in the vastness of the universe.
"This is such an small world..." Heathcliff though, as he took a small withered leaf in his paw. "Such a small, fragile world. Right now, I'm sitting under a tree, but tomorrow I probably will gone, as if I never was here on the first place...As if I never existed..."
Heathcliff released the withered leaf, and the wind made it fly until it was out of sight.
"Gone."
Even when Heathcliff stopped believing in god many years ago, a part of the feline still wanted to be believe there was something else beyond the material world. Something that could gave things a purpose. There was so much beauty and so much pan in the world...The mere possibility of all that being completely pointless made the cat feel empty inside, as if there was a void inside his sould that could never be entirely filled.
Heathcliff took another look around and noticed the trees falling down from trees. Dead, worthless withered leaves.
"What is the difference between those leaves and my life?" Heathcliff muttered. "What is the difference of every life and those trees? Today we are here and tomorrow we all will be gone...At the end nothing we do matters. Nothing..."
But as he pronounced those words, a part of his soul refuse to believe that such a bleak view of reality could be the absolute truth. He wanted to believe in something else, in something that could convince him that every single aspect of existence had a purpose. Even those poor withered leaves nobody ever notices...That one day are here and the next day are gone...
A single tear fell down Heathcliff's cheek as he looked up at the orange sunset sky and dared to ask:
"Is anybody there?"