Written By Raj
I wake up to the sound of the air conditioning unit. It makes a sound- tick, tick, tick, tick. I am aware of the sound, yet also not. It fades in, and out, and in, like a tide. But today is the start of another day, and that is what matters most at the current moment. Not an air conditioning unit. No, in fact, today was extra special. We were going to the great barrier reef.
The Great Barrier reef is the world’s largest organism, a giant, living habitat, stuffed full of life. The moment I saw it in the distance, I began to think. What separates me from this reef? I am certainly more intelligent than it. I can do algebra, and write essays to some extent. But that does not make me better than it. Later, I float in the current, trying to focus on the sky. The ocean acts like a kaleidoscope, and every time my view shifts underwater, the clouds shatter into a million different shapes. Sometimes I see spaceships. Sometimes I see the twisted faces of people. Sometimes the shapes make no sense at all. But the fact is, if aliens came down from space and told me that I was to be farmed, just because they were smarter, better animals, and that we were tasty to the aliens, that really wouldn’t seem right. And yet, fish are tasty. So I will eat them, aliens or no. And I suppose the sky will watch me do it.
