Lesson learned, by experimentation, of a, young child here, translated…
I’d gone to fish up the goldfishes at the nightmarkets with my older brother when I was young, we both caught one, and as we got home, we’d, placed them, into, that holeless pot that was used for plants. Watching our goldfishes swim around in circles, it was, a bit, too, boring, we’d thought, outside the boxes, and started, constructing, that crystal palace in the stories we’d red.
On the crystal palace, naturally, there would need to be the shrimps, the crabs as the guards! This is, quite easy to get, for us, children growing up in the countryside, the following day, as the adults weren’t paying attention, we’d, snuck out, first, we’d gone to the ditches, to catch ourselves, a few guppies, plucked down a few vegetable leaves to add into our makeshift fish tank. The following day, the goldfish got along with the guppies quite well, which was encouraging to our curious natures, and in the afternoons, we’d, fished up a couple more tadpoles, to place it in, plucked a few lotus leaves, and put it into the pot.
and this, was, what those two young kids got…
The fishes, the amphibians, the plants are all in, we’d continued observing, watched those tadpoles grew the legs then, we were ecstatic, thought: “now we have justifications to ask our parents for that tank!” Back then we both thought, that anything that’s living can be kept inside of a pot, then, we’d caught the snails, and the algae in too, we had NO concept of the quality of water needed for the fish, which should be made, fitting for them, to live in.
And so, a tiny little flower pot had, carried the living organisms from the night markets, the ditches, the watering holes, and the fields, and, overnight, that pot turned into, a stinky opaque, body of, water, our precious goldfish went, belly up, we were so shocked, and immediately, put that four-legged tadpole that’s, barely, breathing then, the guppies, and the field snails, back to where we caught them from, and, closed down this, “palace of shock” we’d, set up.
The experience of that made me understood, that before we take actions, we must, do our researches first, to NOT allow our ignorance to hurt something. And, it’s now, more than, forty years since, and, to this very day, I still, felt, awful over what had happened, to those, two, goldfish of, ours.
And so, this would be, a hand-on (or maybe a hands-OFF!) lesson in biology: just because things are found in the same environment, that still doesn’t mean that thy belong together, inside, that big, melting pot, and, this is a lesson for this “kid” to learn back as a young child too!
Life, the Obstacle Course 