Think or Swim Along

At the “Deep Forest” of Aquaria, there was hundreds of Lampan swimming nonstop circling the huge cylindrical fish tank. They swam even faster when the keeper fed them with pellets.

I googled and learned that fish has brain, but it’s very little and don’t do much. Those fish were not using their brain to “think” for sure. I don’t know if any of them would intentionally leave the rest to come out of the cycle and perhaps into another tank, to find a better life. Most of them are content with the pellet given to them daily at 5:30pm. Aren’t we all like the school of Lampan, swimming non-stop circling our own “tank” of life towards the perceived happiness? We move even faster when a reward is in front of us, perhaps also because we are afraid the pellet will be snatched by our mates. We also swim along with our friends when it comes to pursuing the many wants in life. We want to eat and drink better. We want work life balance. We want to have opinion on issues and appear smart. We want not to be left out. Some bad people with crooked aims can see this behavior and make a show out of it, like the feeding show at the Aquaria. May we all grow smarter everyday and make use of our little brain a lot, instead of being called a no-brainer Lampan by the spectators outside of our tank.