Fish Society

007 chose to die another day but unfortunately, it was the next day. It's heart wrenching to lose a life like that. Initially I thought it showed signs of improvement after shifting it to the quarantine tub but as time went on, i guess it was ill beyond any remedy. 007 left for fish society 21 Jan 2007 and will always be remembered fondly as the one who kept my tank clean from diatom algae and the one who fought strongly for his life.

I once said that aquariums is a very therapeutic hobby. You're playing 'God', you're creating a 'world', you choose the life that you want to put it, you provide for it. You don't live in the aquarium so you're a 3rd person but its from this that you understand alot of perspectives that the fish do not. If you take it further and draw parallels to your life, there's alot that it actually reveals.

007 was a fighter. I could tell watching it swim around till its very last. Somehow nature put a survival instinct in its creation that all will fight to survive. Why do humans commit suicide? Why do people choose to take their lives just because they made a mistake and found it imposisble to live with that guilt there and then? Even a fish can die with dignity, swimming till it breathes its last. It just goes to show how weak humans can be.