A Fish in a Fish Bowl

I am lonely, I have no one to play, I have no friends, I have no relatives, I am alone... I am just one fish in a fish tank with nothing but water all around me, where I can't even enjoy swimming. I sleep with open eyes, between people's voice, I move up, I move down, I move round, I move somehow, I can't do anything else I am a Fish in the fish bowl. - The little Fish of the little Fish-Bowl.

I keep seeing this fish lonely in a small spherical fish-bowl on the next of my desk in my office. I often go there, and try to be 'that fish' for sometime. I just try to notice what the fish is doing all alone all the time. What is this fish's life, how does she manage to keep herself alive, I better have killed myself if ever kept in such an asylum. What keeps her going, what keeps her living, what keeps making her energetic all the time ?

This fish is my mystery... why can't we live without people if a fish can do? May be, because we are a social animal, We like to make friends, like to chat, like to play, like to laugh, like to empathize and like to enjoy...!!!

We can't be like that Gold Fish, who is serving a life sentence in that fish-bowl.

Shivendra Singh
16 Apr. 2010