Today We Learned a Song
The Song was in a Different Language
But The Meaning Goes Like This.
Fish is the Queen of Her River,
For the River Helps Her Live Forever.
If You Get Too Close to Her, She will be scared away,
And If You Take Her Away From Her Water, You Will Take Her Life Away.
So when i got home,
I wanted to have fish.
You asked, "Why do you want to have fish so suddenly?"
Of Course, It's because we sang her song today.
I want to know.
When we eat fish,
Is it the one with her life?
or do we have the one whose life has been taken away?
Then I Sang this song for you.
You asked me if i knew the meaning of it.
I said honestly that i dont.
The Meaning You Told Went Like This-
"For the fish, The water is like you for me.
In The water, The little fish has food, She has friends, Her Family..
And she can breathe.
Thus, She is alive."
"Sometimes, We want to see how she is,
So we want to catch her,
But just a sight of us will Frighten her into hiding.
And even a small touch will make her scared.
We think that she got scared because of nothing. Its just a small touch, a small glimpse.
But what we dont realize is that for her, we are big.
And she is so small.
It will hurt her, so of course she gets scared and hides."
"And If we take her away from her water,
She will not be able to breathe.
Not breathing is very painful,
When you dont breathe for a long time, You will lose your life.
So without water, The fish is unable to be alive."
Oh.
So the fish we eat does not have her life?
If so, Does she still feel very painful?
"Mom, Is it very painful without breathing?"
You just laugh
"Silly, Do you want to hold your breath?"
....
When I don't breathe..
My head feels hard.
As if a big stone has been put in my heart and head.
I want to sleep too.
It feels very uncomfortable.
I really wanted to breathe.
'To the fish, Water is like you to me.'
'Without water, She is not able to breathe.'
"Mom! I don't want to eat fish.
Let's not eat fish anymore!"
Who is The Fish, And who is The River?
Again for clarity,
this is not a chapter about 'Dont eat meat' blah blah blah
The MC understands death. But he has a little wrong-ish outlook on it. He hears the children's rhyme and feels amused by the fish and 'her' relation to the water.
So he wants to have fish. Little children are quite impulsive. Just like how they look at a packet of some type of food and exclaim that they want to have it how its shown in the cover of the packet advertisement.
But the meaning his mother explains as 'The river is like to the fish, how you are for me.' All though she tries to explain it in just passing as 'You are dear to me' But the MC is young. Like a white canvas, a horrible picture is painted in his sense of the world.
The child is not the river of the parent, the parent is the river of the child. At least, in this case.