Lessons Of Life: From My Lemon Tetra

This is a story from my aquarium where I had a school of fish. I had a tetra family of fish. I had the red tetra, lemon tetra and gourami. They all were living very happily in my tank.

Often inspiration comes from unexpected places. For me, it came from Lemon tetra fish. He is not a creature which you can expect life lessons from, but sometimes, the smallest voices carry the most profound wisdom.

There were 6 of them and life was full of joy in the tank. They all were good buddies of each other and kept the tank lively. Whenever I returned from school, I was so happy to see them and feed them.

The average life of lemon tetra is 3 to 5 years. My elder brother was doing all the maintenance of the tank, and I learned the basics from him. Everything was fine until one day because of a temperature change I lost 5 other of his friends in one night.

We all were shattered and sad the morning after the dreadful night. We all were clueless about how did this happen suddenly. We were shocked because we had kept our tank so well maintained. We were searching for answers but had none.

We had all these fishes for 2 years, so we were naturally sad. Only this one had remained. Since I was in the process of shifting my home, I had prolonged the thought of getting new friends for him which I feel was a grave mistake.

I watched this one sole warrior for the next 30 days. It all had changed in the tank. It seldom moved in the tank. Always…