| A FISH STORY |
| a story about a fish. A beautiful sleek, fat Northern Pike, predator fish of the cold northern Canadian lakes. It looks like an alligator with fins, one quarter of it's body is head, jaws and sharp teeth.. the rest fins and a body built for speed, dark dappled green to hide it from unwary prey. No brain at all, hardly. An almost purely instinctive creature. This fish had not gotten away... it had been caught live, and was being used in an experiment by a place of science that was studying the behavior of fish. They put it in a wide roomy tank, and dumped in lots of live minnows. They watched as this fish -Zoomm- scooped up the minnows and ate them like nothing. Swam straight at them and scooped them up un it's huge jaws, swallowing them live while zooming after the next one. Nature's creature in it's element, doing what it was meant to do. The scientists took notes and made films of the speed of it, and it's lunges at the minnows, and how it seemed to keep on eating as many minnows as they put in the tank. The more minnows it ate, the more energy it had to catch and eat minnows. The Pike thrived. The experiment continued. The scientists let the Pike eat all of the minnows in the tank. Then they placed in the tank a tall cylinder of bulletproof plexiglass, taller than the depth of the tank, and put the minnows inside of the cylinder. The Pike saw the minnows and zoom- the famous lunge towards the bait that has made it such a popular sporting fish.... WHAM!! as the Pike bounced off the bulletproof glass... The Pike seemed to give it's head a shake, and went after the minnows again, a speedy lunge, and another reverberating recoil as the great fish bounced off the transparent barrier between it and it's proper food. Again and again it lunged, a kamikaze fish in it's lack of understanding the simple barrier that blocked it. It's nose grew ragged, still it bravely went after the minnows, half stunned by it's own efforts, bashed senseless against the plexiglass, it still continued going after it's prey. After days of struggle the tired hurt fish circled the invisible barrier, only occasionally becoming desperate enough to try to get the minnows again. Finally, it ignored the minnows altogether, swimming aimlessly around the tank. This was the point of the experiment the scientists were most interested in. They removed the cylinder, and dumped in tons of minnows. They made videos and took notes as the Pike continued to ignore the minnows. It's instincts had been broken. It starved to death in that tank, surrounded by schools of it's favorite food swimming freely within reach of the big sharp jaws that nature had given it to survive. Cyndi's Comments This story is dedicated to a Northern Pike that died for science.We can see how fear in our own lives conditions us to see only barriers.These walls or barriers must be broken.We must accept the dark with the light,not just one,but the duality of the two.We deserve all the gifts of abundance that we intend.Thoughts do become things. It was a wise teacher, that fish, and I hope that it's untimely departure will help others who have had their instincts distorted by circumstance. Be gentle as you go forth and remember your inner child. She has much to teach you. |
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