Sturdy steps

In a fish restaurant in Temecula, California, USA.

Upon entering the eating place a large aquarium.
Inside a large yellow eel that was remembered from a previous visit to this restaurant more than a year ago.
So this eel was spending his life in a space that must be for him extremely small used as he is to the ocean where he can’t reach the end.
Would an eel be aware of this?
And be upset about his confinement?

Obviously these kinds of thoughts, that may result in sadness and being upset about the faith of the eel, are not intended by the restaurant staff.
The aquarium is there to give you a good feeling.
About the sea.
About fish.
And you are not supposed to realise that fish are brutally caught, killed, slaughtered, butchered, cooked and swallowed.

The menu offered all kinds of fish.
Like “Butterfish fas”.
Now, what is “fas”?
The waitress was asked this question and “fas” means “frozen at sea”.
Good to know because it means the fish has not been caught and been rotting on the ship until finally a freezer was found once arrived in harbour.

The menu also offered freshly caught Abalone from Mexico.
At $ 65 per person.
Oh dear, oh dear, the economic times are so hard on us.

But it seems that there are still people who order Abalone.
Otherwise they wouldn’t bring it to the restaurant.
Eating a plate of the edible mollusk of the warm seas that has a shallow ear-shell lined with mother-of-pearl and pierced with respiratory holes.
For a price a person could live of for one week when shopping at “Food4Less” supermarket.

So, the conversation with the two best friends quickly turned to a vital question: “Did you ever make a real big mistake in your life?”
The friends are a couple.
The man was thinking and eventually said: “No”.
The woman was thinking and said: “Yes”.
Because, once in her life, she had had a woman friend she had totally trusted.
But this trust had been shattered: the friend had betrayed her.

Of course the two men in her company insisted immediately this could not be considered a real big mistake in her life.
It is never a mistake to trust someone.
It is a big mistake not to respect the trust that is offered and accepted.

Maybe there are only two real big mistakes a human being can make.
The first one is to terminate the life of another person.
And the other big mistake is to finish the own life.
Besides that, everything else are sturdy steps of the dance life is.




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