An Empass had a lesson with a pigeon 

Empass

;Who can feel somebody else’s feelings as if their own, or such an ability is called “Empass” in Japan. Maybe in English, too?

I reminded that I’m one of them when I rescued a wild pigeon caught in neighbor’s trap. I have another pigeon as my family at home from before, but it’s not about this one.

The neighbor grows goldfish outside as their business which is located in front of my tiny flat. With lots of traps settled on the edge of the pounds in these modern days.

One morning, my cat approached to the border fence slowly sniffing something. I came up to him and what I found, there was a colorful beautiful wild pigeon dipped in the water. Later I found her right leg was bitten badly by a metal trap.

Somehow I succeeded in rescuing her, I took her to the veterinarian who is good at birds. I was asked once to go home during the surgeon, we had to decide to have her damaged leg cut off because the bone was completely broken apart and she was in the water for few hours, the organs were too much damaged to put together again.

On the way home, I suddenly felt a sad, sad, very sad feelings rised up in my heart while I drove my motorcycle.

At this moment, I was thinking right or left, which to turn at the next corner so I didn’t have a reason to feel sad.

Then I realized who sent me the sad feeling is the pigeon waiting for the surgeon alone. Maybe she was scared.

After the surgeon, I happily picked her up and came home together.

From the next day, I had to give medicine to her, twice a day, it was really a big job because one of her leg is gone but she could fly very well, and she was still scared of me.

On the second day, it was such a hot humid summer day so I kept the window slightly open even at the medication time. Of course she still hate it and flew inside the room much longer than the day before. I somehow gave her medicine, removed my hand and said “ok, you can go” then she flew off from my legs and landed beneath my bed in the next room. I minded my cat might find her so I tried move her back into the previous room. But to do this, I have to say I was wrong to take the strategy to “chase her” even it was in very slow motion and short distance. She immediately jumped flew towards the narrow open window, slipped at the edge but successfully went back to the sky of freedom.

I was a bit shocked but also felt released because I didn’t have to force her medication anymore. Her wounds looked so-so okay, I thought she’d manage somehow.

Then few minutes later, the sad, sad feelings again came hit my heart. I was confused, because this time I had the reason to feel sad but there was a time lag. Who’s feeling is this?

In such a case, o-ring test is sometimes effective. As I’ve tried, it looked who sad were both me and the pigeon.

I was a little surprised because I thought the pigeon must have been happy went back to her world.

Why sad? What I simply felt by inspiration at the moment was “she wanted to stay longer but couldn’t. Additionally it was scary so she was sad”

I regretted very much, of course.

When animals are rescued, they can run away by shock and reaction even what they truly wish to do is the opposite; such a common sense and basic knowledge but I have to say I didn’t understand it at all.

I respected the free will, but sometimes it doesn’t make them happy…

True wish and lifeguarding ego system sometimes shows opposite choice in life, it’s not only for animals but for us, too.

Some say “True happiness is waiting there after the door of scary”

Well, there’s no way going back to the past. Or if I had, I wouldn’t use it because it’s sad but I also feel this was the way best to happen.

If we have “en 縁; a Japanese word which we use to express the mysterious connection of the destiny”, we’ll meet again.

By the way, if you are going to grow crops in your homestead field, to be a good friend with birds might help you.

On the next article, I’d like to introduce you a unique strategy to ask local resident animals stop eating up all of the harvesting.