Why can't fish keepers stop? Few people know the hardships behind it

Keeping a few fish is like raising children - you worry when they're sick or hungry. It's like having armor and a soft spot at the same time. When they're sick, if you treat them, you worry your hand is too heavy; if you don't treat them, you worry they'll leave you just like that. How many related posts have you read over and over again, how much medicine have you frantically bought, and in the end you still don't know where to start. Even with all your skills, in the face of fragile life you're at a loss, utterly helpless. Just thinking that the fish might all die makes you feel blue and mushroom - utterly defeated.

When you first start keeping fish, because of unreasonable design or equipment problems, water floods everywhere. Really, flooding your own home is no big deal - you can clean it up slowly yourself, but don't let it leak downstairs. Because a previous tank leaked, water seeped along the wall corner down to the floor below. At the time I wasn't home, and I don't know how furious the neighbor was when they knocked on the door in the middle of the night, or whether my family resented being woken in the middle of the night to find all kinds of containers to drain my tank. So afterward, the fish-keeping equipment was moved from indoors to outdoors.

The fish torment me a thousand times, yet I treat the fish like my first love. You're tired after work and coming home, right? Want to just collapse and sleep? No - today you haven't taken a look at the fish yet, haven't fed them, haven't changed the water, haven't washed the filter cotton. By the time all that's done, it's the dead of night again. Fish have their sorrows and joys, partings and reunions; the moon has its cloudy and clear, waxing and waning. If a fish passes away from our hands, it's not our fault - we loved it, so don't be sad.

There are many reasons to keep going

Maybe it's the sense of accomplishment that fish used to only live a month, but now they can live several months;

Maybe it's the satisfaction of secretly thinking how ugly this fish is, while your friends praise how beautiful it is;

Maybe it's the happiness of sitting in front of the fish tank chattering away to yourself even when there's no one else at home;

Maybe it's the sense of existence when you're giving up on yourself, and you realize there are still fish that need you to take care of them.

Actually, when you're still persisting, you've already forgotten whether you're tired or whether it's hard. Watching the fish swim back and forth, begging for food, is already satisfying enough. Who still thinks "you little thing, you've really made my life hard"? This is what they mean by there's no "want to or not," only "willing or not." "No matter how hard or tiring keeping fish is, I'm willing!"

In the past, carriages and horses were slow, letters traveled far, and a lifetime was only enough to love one person.

Now with the hustle and bustle of traffic, you can charge for five minutes, yet there's no one to talk to for two hours, and it's hard to love only one person in a lifetime. Fortunately, I still love a whole group of fish!

So what about you? Is your fish keeping a passing whim? Because of your kids? A lifelong true love? I once heard someone say that fish keeping is their faith, and they'll keep doing it forever and ever.

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