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When I was a kid, I did something really
terrible. My father bought me two goldfish and named them "Iasc" and"
Iasc Elie". He told me that meant "Fish" and "Other
Fish" in Irish. To an eight-year-old child, the names seemed really boring.
These boring names made me feel the goldfish were
boring, too. They did nothing more than
swim around in their bowl. Sometimes, for fun, they would swim to the bottom of
their bowl and dance around along the bottom, looking for interesting pieces of
gravel.
I tried many ways to make the goldfish more
exciting. The most interesting thing was to see how long they could live out of
the water. I took a fish out of the water with my hands and watched it gasping for air. Then I put it
back in the bowl. And then I would take
them out of the water again, for longer and longer each time.
Iasc and Iasc Elie started swimming towards the
top of the water, not moving very much. Then they started floating on the top
of the water. In other words, they were dead.
I thought that bigger pets are more exciting, such
as a cat and a dog. It would live longer than a goldfish, and then I kept a dog
as my pet.
