Our lives here on Earth are rarely predictable. Things can suddenly occur which knock us out of our normal orbit of being. And so it proved last week when my owner suddenly faced an unexpected drama at some unearthly hour in the night….
He was alone in the house and had been in a very deep sleep. It was a hot, sultry night, so he’d gone to bed without wearing any pyjamas. Goodness knows what time it was, but in the pitch black, he came to the surface after hearing a noise in the room. Or so he thought. He listened again, and then clearly heard a quiet movement around the foot of his bed. And so he came to the shocking realisation that there was an intruder in the bedroom! In a split second, he catapulted himself out of the bed, turned on the light switch and prepared for a fight, (still with no clothes on). But instead of a burglar, there in front of him was a neighbour’s cat which had somehow come in through the first-floor bedroom window. It’s difficult to judge who got the greater fright. Well, actually, it was probably the cat, who on seeing a naked man bearing down on him, took a flying leap back out through the window. And so my owner learnt the lesson that in life, we always have to expect the unexpected.
