today my fish is dead. He passed away sometime between the hours of 8 am and 11 am. Peacefully i hope. I came home from an early day at work and as i popped the cap of his fish food to place 4 tiny pellets gently on the surface of his home i discovered his lifeless body sunken to the bottom resting on the shiny mermaid stones. I flushed him away immediately after my greusome discovery and then emptied and cleaned his bowl. I feel no saddness for his untimely death and i wonder why there is this line between what creatures we feel for and the ones we dont. Who made this line and what does it say about us? Its just a fish. But a life indeed. A cat is just a cat but on the other side of this line. Why?