Rumah Ikan

Selama dua bulan terakhir, kami bertiga kerja sama merawat aquarium. Marah-marah, berantem, bocor, tumpah, ketawa, cengengesan, ngaso.

Lalu belajar kalau ikan, seperti makhluk hidup umumnya, akan muncul perilaku lucu ketika aquarium terawat (pH air seimbang, filter dibersihkan, makan tidak berlebihan). 

Ada yang kejar-kejaran.

Yang introvert keluar dari balik kayu.

Kalau kita datang, mereka meriung tahu mau dikasih makan.

Lalu jadi mikir. Barangkali aquarium manusia begitu kotornya ya, sampai perilaku kita begitu buruk ke satu sama lain. 

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A Home for the Fishes

These past two months, the three of us learned to set up an aquarium. We cursed, argued, things were leaking, spilled, a lot of laughs, and taking it easy.

We learned that fishes, like living things in general, will display its wonderful nature when the aquarium is well cared for (water pH is balanced, filter is cleaned, moderate feeding). 

Some were playing chase.

The introvert finally swam out from behind the block of wood.

And when we came, they gathered knowing they were being fed.

Then I wondered. Perhaps our human aquarium is so filthy, that our behaviour so bad to each other.

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