i’ll stop running. later. maybe.

i grew up watching tom want jerry for his meal. tom will do anything just to put salt and pepper on jerry. they would run around until the entire household was in shambles. funny. it felt like i was watching an action movie.

but tom never won. never…not once in my entire childhood of watching stupid thomas ‘tom’ cat and jerry mouse. how stupid of tom and how stupid of me of getting so engaged in their entire ‘adventure’. jerry would always manage to escape just before tom drops him in the pot of boiling soup, just before tom puts him inside the hot oven, just before tom slices him on the chopping board where he is tied with several ropes to .if jerry could no longer escape, mammy will come slapping tom with her trademark broom.

tom never succeeded. that’s why the story lasted until now since 1940’s. that’s why i kept watching. it’s the shitty chase that we’re all after. it’s tiring, senseless and…fun.

it was such a hit that they even made different versions of it like tom and jerry kids, tom and jerry tales, tom and jerry on stage, tom and jerry on dvd.

stupid show.

i badly wanted tom to eat jerry, tear him into bloody pieces. i couldn’t imagine how exalted i would be. i knew it would feel like finding the right key to a strange door.  i NEEDED tom to kill jerry. i badly wanted tom to devour jerry without jerry having flashlights and gadgets inside tom’s intestines.

then, i realized i don’t want tom to eat jerry. i don’t want jerry to die. because i am jerry. the chase is my life. the chase is my career. the chase is my paycheck. the chase keeps me having projects like jerry in ‘anchors aweigh’. i’m looking forward to ‘tom and jerry on the road’ so i can meet my fans all over the world. fans who are just as mad about the chase as i am.

i don’t want tom to eat jerry. because i am tom. if i eat jerry now, everything’s gonna end. i will be just like every other cat in every other household with no one to chase and no one to threaten.

i stopped watching tom and jerry a couple of years back. it no longer feels like watching an action film. it saddens me now. but i am still running.

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