We had another special walkies this week, mummy said that there was a very special day that we needed to celebrate. This special day also meant that mummy and daddy had a day when they didn’t have to work. She said this was something called VE Day, it’s a day where we celebrate the end of a World War in Europe. Now, I’m not very sure what a war is but mummy said it was something that we should never have again. Many people died fighting for our freedom and to make sure that we are now all free to be ourselves and live life how we want. I’m very grateful for this as maybe without these people who died I wouldn’t have been able to travel from Cyprus 🇨🇾 to my furrever home here in the UK 🇬🇧. I may not even have been able to be rescued from the streets and my life would have been very different if I even survived at all.
So I dressed up in my smartest bow tie for my special walkies and when we went outside I didn’t run around like a mad thing, I didn’t get the zoomies or chase any birds and insects, I just had a nice walk with mummy and spent the time just being together with her and being thankful for my life and that I’m free to be who I want to be. We paused for a minute just to reflect on life and be grateful and thankful.
Maybe if we all did this a bit more every day or every week, just stop, think and be grateful for those we love, those that we can’t be with, those that have helped and supported us maybe the world would be a better more loving place.
Then we carried on with our walkies and I showed my gratitude by rolling around in the mud and getting myself all dirty, just because I can. Oh, it’s such good fun and means I can give my whole body a good scrub and reach all the areas I can’t reach with my tongue when washing. There’s nothing quite like a good back rub.
Us cats are simple creatures, we just get on with life, we don’t judge or criticise, we just accept each other for what we are. We don’t see differences or disabilities, I think that is what the people we were remembering fought for and that they just wanted to ‘be more cat’.
For the rest of the week I’ve just been reflecting on what a lucky cat I am and making sure that I do all the things I love doing so I know I’m making the most of my life and living it to the full. I’ve found some new trees to climb and been playing hide and seek with mummy whilst out on walkies. You might think that’s a strange game for a blind cat to play but mummy can’t always find me in the bushes, I know that coz she says out loud ‘where are you Jenny I can’t see you’ and then tells me what a clever girl I am and how good I am at hiding from her. I can always find mummy as I can smell where she is and hear her every tiny movement so she can’t hide anywhere from me no matter how quiet she thinks she’s being. She’s no match for my superpowers!
I know that I’ve told you all before that when I’m out for walkies I don’t like the wind when it’s all noisy and gusty but this week I figured that if people could be so brave to fight in this war that we remembered that I could be brave too and not be scared of the noisy swirly wind. Today I tried that out, it was all sunny this morning so I spent it sunning myself on the balcony but by the time mummy gave in to my meowing to take me outside the sun had gone in and he noisy wind had come out. When it’s windy and I’m on the balcony I’m not scared so today with mummy by my side out we went, I could hear the trees and bushes shaking loudly as the wind moved them around but I can be brave and instead of crouching to the ground I moved with the noise, I ran as fast as the wind and as it swirled and changed direction I did too. As it turns out it’s really fun and nothing at all to be afraid of, it was like having an invisible playmate and our zoomies were in complete sync. I ran and twisted and jumped and shouted at mummy to make sure she was watching me – of course she was.
It just goes to show that if you face and embrace your fears you might just be surprised at how you feel. I felt great and I’ve found something else that I now enjoy doing, I would definitely recommend everyone to try it sometime. My advice to you all this week is to be bold and brave in life like me.
Jenny’s Story 