Introducing Rune

For those who aren't aware, Rune is my cat. Unfortunately he met his maker a few months ago when playing chicken with a car. One blessing was that he was gone before I think he even knew what had happened, and the funny thing was, there wasn't a scratch on him. He was sent to the earth as perfect as when he arrived.

Now some people will think I'm crazy, but Rune was the only soul I could speak to. So with his passing I lost not only THE coolest cat in the world but also a ear to just listen, a trait I think is becoming lost to this world. He would never judge or comment or give criticism about my feelings or views, but only an acknowledgement of hearing and a reassuring purr that whatever my thoughts, everything would be peachy. (In truth, I think in talking to him, I already knew the answers to my problems or thoughts, I just needed to hear them out loud.)

So now with Rune gone and nothing but a lemon tree planted above his ashes to speak to, I have turned to the internet. Mostly in fear that my husband and flat-mates will send me to the funny farm for speaking to a tree. The humm of the fan in the lap top is kinda like a purr, and apart from the odd message that says I should load some crap, its kinda like speaking to Rune, but even I admit, a very poor substitute.

I like to imagine the 'internet super-highway' (as my husband calls it), resembles the scene on the original Charlie and the chocolate factory, where Mike TV gets shrunk and sent above their heads in thousands of little pieces to be reassembled in the next TV. And maybe by sending this up there, Rune might hear me, and that in its self gives me comfort that I'm ok and once again everything will be peachy.

I have named this blog "Being in Rune's world" so that we can all remember, even for the slightest moment, that we all live in this time, this day, this moment together, and that sometimes silence is the best solution to a problem. Just plain simple acknowledgement that a situation exists, is enough to make it go away.

Just being able to listen to another's thoughts and feelings without making comment or passing judgement I think is something that not only I need to work on (yes I'm the first to admit it), but a large proportion of the worlds population. Sometimes I think we all talk too much and don't hear a thing that is going on around us. Too preoccupied with commenting on others problems or giving advice on what they have said to really HEAR what they are saying.

It's the 'can't see the forest for the trees' scenario, but with conversation.

Myself, for a start, I am going to start to LISTEN, like really listen to what people say. After all, its what I would like of them towards me. I know that I would feel better if people realised that my feelings were real to me, and no matter how much they try to convince me otherwise, they never change.

I am going to practice the art of Rune-ism.

So as you can probably tell I'm not much of a poet or writer and this is the first time I have ever made a blog, but I intend to use this as an outlet for all the things I would have said to Rune. All the small questions things in life that make you think about the big stuff, when silence is the only true answer.

I read this somewhere and thought it spoke volumes.

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts" Margaret Lee Runbeck.

I think Rune would be proud of me.