More Than Just A Fish

  Everyone has someone or something that has entered their lives at a critical point where hope

 seemed impossible and pain the only emotion left to feel. In my case, God sent me Bill.

  I never did mentioned why I decided to get Bill. After all, there was a hiatus of quite a few years

since I last kept fishes.

  It was my first year in university and I was really happy that I had been accepted into a government

university.My studies were going well and my boyfriend was living a train ride away. Life seemed

perfect.Then everything crashed because my Indian boyfriend decided that he didn't want me

anymore because he was superstitious and listened to the advice his mother gave him.She had seeked

the services of a medium who said he would never marry a Chinese girl.So he dumped me.That

turned my life upside down and it happened near my 1st semesters final exams.I did not study and I

thank God my parents were there for me everyday through skype and calls.God was good to me and I

passed with excellent results.

  When I started my 2nd semester I got Bill because i was lonesome. He was so energetic even

though there was no space for him to move in that tiny container they kept him in and he was

beautiful. And best of all, he reacted well towards me. I upgraded him to a two gallon tank and kept

him illegally in my dorm room.Everyday he was there to greet me when I woke up in the morning by

bouncing up and down energetically and following the movement of my finger and hands.I loved

him, and bonded with him somehow unlike the other fishes I had kept.I would buy R.O water instead

of using tap water when I wanted to change his water and bought him different kinds of fishfood,and

also caught him his favorite mosquitoes.At night if I studies till early in the morning,he'd look at me

and my books and watch me study.I'd play peek-a-boo with him behind my books.And I would cover

the top of his tank with a book to keep the light from entering his tank at night if I was studying.He

was always active,and when he saw me coming back from classes,he'd start swimming like a

maniac.He was sweet.

  He was there when I was dumped a second time by the guy and when he tried to get at me the third

time.Bill was there.The days where I felt so alone and had no one to talk to.He swam for me,nibbled

my fingers and flared his gills at me.He was my best friend.

  I do believe that the Father sent him to me in the times when I needed a friend the most.And now

when I'm better and strong again,he went away.For that short time when Bill was with me,so many

people came to know and love his crazy personality.My dad,my friends and even my mom who

doesn't like me keeping fish,came to love him.She once took a three hour drive to make sure Bill

wasn't badly shaken in the car,when the drive in reality took 2 hours!Bill,will be missed by so many

people,especially me.He was my guardian angel :) I love you Bill