Do you pet fishes?
Have you ever complained at one point of your life that you
were lonely and it felt miserable? Because I did too, not once but several
times. I groaned about how sad my life was until this point. Because I am
looking at the saddest living being ever. There is no higher level of
describing sadness.
In front of me are
two small glass tanks with fishes. I call it glass tank because it’s not what I
can categorize as an aquarium (which I do not fancy at all) because these boxes
are empty. Unlike some other aquarium I have seen with decoration and plants
and many fishes and other fish friendly environment which again is not for me
because I have never even tried to
understand the idea of petting a fish. And after watching the movie “Finding
Nemo” has made it harder for me to digest the fact that a life of fish ends at
the bottom of tank and the same goes for a bird in a cage. The fins and the tail
are meant to cut water currents and those wings are meant to be spread and sweep
the air in the open skies.
I am staring at the lonely fish in right tank and I am
thinking what must he/she be thinking all day long. Would it be talking to
itself sometime because there is no one else in the tank to interact with?
As I stare longer I
realized that apart from what other
aquariums which are designed to provide,
like a better prison environment to the
fishes, this tank was empty except for
few pebbles piled on one corner. I was asking to myself where does it rest? Lay flat on the bottom?
It is true that there are seemingly good things about the
fishes in the aquarium such as they receive fresh water, oxygenated, and
assuming they are fed on time but it is not the course of nature. Fishes belong
to their home, home is open water, not a trap.
Yet all I see is that poor fish moving down to the bottom
collecting a few pebbles in its mouth, reaching the top and dropping it and it
kept repeating the process. It was out of pure boredom that the fish was trying
to hitting against the oxygen line that runs in the tank. Mentally the fish is
captured within itself, it will go insane. I am not scientist or mind reader,
its simple application of life science. I am a human being and I can’t be in
one room all my life. As much as I deserve to explore, grow, see and learn I
believe every living being on the earth deserves the same right.
It is arguable that it is same for all the pet animals like
dogs and cat because they also live by the human rules but the difference is
that the ability of these pets to reciprocate emotions and that’s they correspond with humans better.
Live and let live, Make smart and righteous choices of
having a pet.
