the suicide attempt
was woken up at 6am this morning by the sound of some wierd kind of rattling, and I really wasn't sure what it was so I just ignored it. also, I was alseep, so I didn't care what it was.
but then it wouldn't stop, and after awhile I realised it was coming from the fish tank (which I just cleaned out and chanegd a bit and now it looks so cool, like fish paradise). and straight away I knew that one of the fish had jumped out of the tank into the back section of the tank, where there was no water, and was rattling around with the lid in there.
and so I got up and looked and even though it was pitch black I could see it in there, flipping about the place like there was no tomorrow (which, for it, there actually wasn't).
and so I said MUM! and she came and she picked him up and plopped him back in, and he was fine after that and we all went back to bed and dreamt about flying fish.
but then when I got back from school this afternoon he had died. so it was sad.
I just don't see why any fish living in fishie paradise would want to kill themselves.
reminded me of something fiona told me about, once when she was really little and she was just walking past her fish tank, when she saw gthat one of the fish had got its head stuck in one of the shells they had in the tank. and all she could see was it's tail sticking out the shell and wriggling.
so she started bellowing for her dad and he comes bounding up the stairs towards the screams. Thinking fiona had set her hand on fire or something, he just looks into the fish tank and sees a shell with a little fish tail coming out of it. so he pulled the fish out of the shell and plopped it back in the water.
and fiona looked at it. and the fish started swimming on its side. so she reached her hand in the water and flipped it up the right way. and so along it swam, but then it moved onto its side again. so she put it the right way. and on it swam.
and fiona walked off.
...but when she came back a little while later it had died.
but then it wouldn't stop, and after awhile I realised it was coming from the fish tank (which I just cleaned out and chanegd a bit and now it looks so cool, like fish paradise). and straight away I knew that one of the fish had jumped out of the tank into the back section of the tank, where there was no water, and was rattling around with the lid in there.
and so I got up and looked and even though it was pitch black I could see it in there, flipping about the place like there was no tomorrow (which, for it, there actually wasn't).
and so I said MUM! and she came and she picked him up and plopped him back in, and he was fine after that and we all went back to bed and dreamt about flying fish.
but then when I got back from school this afternoon he had died. so it was sad.
I just don't see why any fish living in fishie paradise would want to kill themselves.
reminded me of something fiona told me about, once when she was really little and she was just walking past her fish tank, when she saw gthat one of the fish had got its head stuck in one of the shells they had in the tank. and all she could see was it's tail sticking out the shell and wriggling.
so she started bellowing for her dad and he comes bounding up the stairs towards the screams. Thinking fiona had set her hand on fire or something, he just looks into the fish tank and sees a shell with a little fish tail coming out of it. so he pulled the fish out of the shell and plopped it back in the water.
and fiona looked at it. and the fish started swimming on its side. so she reached her hand in the water and flipped it up the right way. and so along it swam, but then it moved onto its side again. so she put it the right way. and on it swam.
and fiona walked off.
...but when she came back a little while later it had died.