The Reiki that wasn’t
A 6 year old boy in the neighborhood, who knew I did this thing called Reiki that helped people and animals, knocked on my door one day. He wanted to know if I would Reiki his ant farm. Well, after smiling and laughing to myself I explained to him that sometimes, Reiki doesn’t make things better in the way we want or think, but rather helps them to go home to God. I knew he would relate to this because he had lost his grandparents and knew what going home to God meant. I also knew the ants in the ant farm, that he just happened to bring with him, had already passed.
He begged, getting teary eyed, to “please do that Rikky stuff to my ant farm. I know you can do it”. What could I say? I thought a lot of things like, ‘I know they’re God’s creatures too but come on they're ants’ and then ‘there are millions ants, start a new farm’. I knew that was wrong, but I’m human. I did have the thought.
I took the ant farm and after about 30 seconds, which seemed so very long, I told him I was done. Think about it. How long would it take to administer Reiki to a bunch of ants? They’re so very little – I just held the case and closed my eyes. He had no idea whether I was administering Reiki or not. I was administering Reiki, but not to the ants. I was administering Reiki to him, for general wellness.
He took the farm from me, looked at it intently and said, “They’re not moving yet, guess I’ll just wait. Thanks!” I shook my head, smiled and watched as he ran off, running down the driveway with the ant farm held tightly between his little hands.
I watched as he walked away and immediately went to the phone, called the Mom and before I could really say anything, she began explaining, “I’m so sorry. He wanted to come see you. I tried to tell him no, but he just ran.”
After I explained what had transpired I said, “You might want to start building another ant farm if you don’t want to further explain the whole life/death thing to him.” To which she responded, “One step ahead of you, T. Already working on it”.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t agree with lying to children. However, I do believe we need to let them have those things they believe in, and love, for as long as possible. This child loved his ant farm. Childhood is way too short, especially in this day and age. I did nothing more than conspire with his parents to let that last just a little bit longer.
He was told later, by his parents, what actually happened. I see him occasionally and I must say, this so called conspiracy truly does not seem to have had any adverse affects on his psyche.
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