I was over at my friend's place yesterday to do a spot of gardening. Upon reaching his place, the first thing he said to me was "come and QT my Koi. One of them is very sick, probably dying."
Poor fish, it was really in a bad bad shape. So bad that I could hold it in my hand to QT. For sure, it was my first time holding onto a fish to QT it!! When I was QTing the fish, I visualise it happily swimming and free of pain. At the same time, I was non attached to a specific outcome ie the fish must live cos' I know that I am a helper not the creator. What we want is for the fish to be pain free and aid in it's recovery process as much as possible.
When I left his place last evening, the fish was still alive (to the surprise of my friend). Haven't got an update yet. Will keep you posted.
Update:
The fish died. I know it's beyond my control yet when my friend told me the news, I felt really sad and wish it could be otherwise. Guess I'm not that non attached to outcome as I would like to be yet.
But the QT session helped the other fish in the pond to survive!
2 comments:
Hello Bernie, don't be too sad. glad that u're honest with the outcome. there's lessons for all of us to learn on this. thanks for the wonderful post! =)
Thanks Bingjie!!! This experience definitely serves as reminder that we are just helpers, not the creator. :P
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