No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise[*purpose]

Borrowed from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 1865

It was a cold December night. My eyes scanned my room. Everything around me was dead and static, and I was surrounded by nonliving things. It was as if I had become an inanimate object. I decided to get a pet and because of my limited experience and resources, I settled for a fish. I bought a red fighter the next day. Over the past six months, I have been taking care of him.

Last weekend, I spent the evening with my friends. In the middle of the night, my mother called me and informed me that my fish was dead. When I returned the next day my fishbowl was empty. My room felt dead to me again. Having been upset for some time, I was contemplating the reasons for his death. As I blamed myself for growing the Money plant in the bowl, its roots were restricting his movement. For water purification, I have stopped using badam leaves. The cost of my carelessness is his life.

I reflected on all my failures and repercussions that were caused by carelessness and ignorance in my life. We sometimes forget to turn off the iron box or keep the key on the bike. What is the opposite of carelessness for me is mindfulness. A zeal to live in the present and do things is what it is all about. Being mindful is a difficult task. The easiest way to become mindful is to stop worrying and start doing. We suffer more in our imagination than in our reality.