Monday 28 March 2011

Sucker for life!


In our six fish aquarium the most low profile of the lot is Chipkoo, our sucker fish.
We tend to get nervous looking at chipkoo trying to figure out his life-status. He is so still that he might as well be dead. Then almost to spare us the anxiety he reluctantly moves his fin for a nanosecond.
This morning i saw chipkoo absolutely still and not moving but much to my horror way outside the fish tank on the floor. It was almost surreal to see him glued to the room floor. I was completely spooked. I meekly requested my dad to pick him up and left the room in panic...and dad came back with the good news that chipkoo was alive and jumped from his hand when he tried to pick him up...now chipkoo is back into his wet watery home.
Its weird isn't it? Many questions were fighting for attention...did i just witness a fish attempt suicide?
like jumping out the water..the way in our old movies heroines jumped into the sea? how did he come out? what made him jump out?
The deafening silence of  the still fish..a pathetic attempt at second guessing the motives of the most meditative fish of the lot. The sage. His single minded purposeful living mostly cleaning up the world (fishtank water) to make it liveable for all. A life so pure...so altruistic..so still !
Chipkoo got sucked back into the life in water. Now glued back to the surface of the fishtank. Alive. Still moving his fin for that nano second assuring the care takers of his wellbeing.
Maybe its profound. Maybe its just that a fish jumped out of the tank and was found alive and put back into the world he was trying to escape. No one will ever know. What say you?

2 comments:

  1. total sucker! 2 thumbs up for Chipkoo :-)
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    Moral of the story - Cut out the crap from life and live well!

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