Fourth Form of Madness

Last week my cat caught a bunny. If that isn’t bad enough, she dragged it home and devoured it out on our alfresco – not the kind of outside dining I imagined when we built that area. Normally my cat is quite placid and loving unless you open a packet of crisps in her earshot and then she will maul you to death in order to get herself a crisp. But puss is a bit of a split personality, loving lap cat by day and ruthless assassin by night (or mid afternoon as in this case).

I didn’t think anything of it until the night after, when I was rushing off to yoga with just minutes to spare. Puss was snuggled up in tight little ball and as I bent to give her a kiss I noticed she had black lumps on her ears. As I bent closer I realised they were no black lumps, those were fleas and she was covered in them. After I recovered from the shock and spontaneous scream I let out, I did what any loving mother would do, I grabbed puss in one hand, grabbed a tube of Programme with the other and hastily dabbed at her neck as I hurled her outside. I couldn’t help savouring the sweetness of karma as I stared out at puss through the glass door, those fleas were definitely a parting gift from the bunny who, whilst unable to defend itself against the food chain hierarchy of nature, was able to return to puss some of the suffering she was dishing out, instantly.

Actually nature has a way of ensuring things kind of balance out of their own accord without any interference. The problem is, we all often can’t help interfering with the natural order of things. We often feel we have to control things, make things right, prevent things from happening when actually, all we really need to do is breathe and allow life to unfold of it’s own accord. Life will always strive to maintain equilibrium, just like out bodies. Whether we like the direction that equilibrium takes us is a mute point. Our task is to train our minds so that we can relax into life, come what may and love it with all our heart and all our soul as we ride the tides of equilibrium that are our lives.