1. It’s Not Really A Fish Bowl
FYS
By: Jade Smith
It’s not really a fish bowl. His whole life he just wanted to understand. He could
talk to the other fish, he could watch what they were doing, he knew how to act like
them, swim like them, he could do almost everything they could do. He did pity himself
though. There he was, a fish, right next to other fish. The normal fish he called them. His
whole life he didn’t understand why he was trapped. He thought to himself, “Why do
they get to be together? Why do they have more things in common? We’re all fish aren’t
we? So why are we living in different fish bowls? He couldn’t fully act like them because
he was different. His brain worked differently than the other fish. He thought about much
more, he got anxious about much more, he got sad about much more, he was just very
different. And since he was alone in his own fish bowl he felt trapped. He felt like he was
in his own fish bowl because he was forced to be there because of who he was, because
of the way he was born, and the way he thinks and feels inside. But it’s not really a fish
bowl.
One day he was watching all of the other fish in the other fish bowl just talking
and joking around. Usually they let him join in on any conversation they’re having but
this time they didn’t. The night before he got really mad and was swimming around fast
banging himself against his fish bowl because he so desperately wanted out. The other
fish didn’t like that, but of course they didn’t understand. So while the other fish were all
talking and joking without him he started to think to himself, “I don’t have to be like this,
I don’t have to be stuck in here.” So he built up all of the strength and might and power
he had and leaped out of his bowl towards the other one. While in the air it was like time
stopped, he had one last and final thought before entering this new fish bowl. He thought
to himself, “That was who I was, but I am who I am. This is my life and my world, it’s
not really a fish bowl.”
