The Fish Story

Of course, the traditional AIESECer definitely is thinking about the fish philosophy - this book of 100 pages that has exactly four things. There are actually different opinions about it. I found it quite good but was critized by my team members who regard the book as low level and mediocre. So all the ones that have thought about the fish book when reading the headline, make up your mind to which category you belong... Anyway, this is not the topic today.

What I was referring to is a sociological experiment and mystery in the same time in our office. No, it is not about Arturs process of self discovery - just joking Arturo. It is about Ernst entering Moksha, no another joke. It is as well not about Alexis discovering more about this conspiracy theories (there are this rumours that everything is somehow coordinated by this secret conspirative organizations - Alexis thinks that even the change agent came out of some of those organizations - me personally I really dont believe in that stuff, I would more believe in this men in black thingie with the alien tribe in the safe deposit locker - probably we are exactly the same and the world is one of this lockers, so all those conspiracy clubs are just some group of random strikers that are anyway controlled by aliens). But this all is not the topic.

It is about the aquarium that we have. Yes. we have an aquarium. Have a look at the picture of it. You can see one of our LC members visiting the office and having a look on the new whale we bought some days ago. Anyway, what matters is that the fish we had inside somehow died. And until now we werent really able to figure out why the died. Furthermore there were as well fish that simply disappeared. And this is the whole mystery our brains are not able to fully understand.

It all started with one fish out of four dying at the beginning of our term. This was ok, as anyway we wanted to close the chapter of last years team, so a radical cut was maybe a good sign. He actually died in a quite cruel way as he somehow got into the pump of the basin which caused some serious problems with his guts. After that we had three fish, one big one, one cleaning fish (quite ugly) and one smaller fish.

The cleaning fish was the next one to die. He actually simply disappeared over the weekend. We searched him but couldnt find any sign. We thought that during the cleaning and rearranging of the stones of the aquarium he probably somehow scratched too much on the surface, digged deeper and ended up below the stones.

But now the miracle comes. He wasnt there when lately we cleaned up the whole aquarium, put the stones out and searched for him. We were confused. After one day in the new clean aquarium suddenly out of the two fish the small one disappeared as well. It was clear for us:

IT's the BIG FISH

I always didnt have a good feeling with him. He had this grin in the face and seemed to hide something. He looked nice, but thats just the surface. He is a pure killer, a murderer a bad fish. So we decided that we have to do something. We have to give him a counterstrike! So Artur and I went into this fish shop and bought three new fish, where one is the crucial one:

HINNERK, a "lionsheadfish"

This fish is one of the most weird fish ever seen. Just check out this illustrative pic. Hinnerk reminds us somehow of one of our LCPs, but we wont mention the name of course. Hinnerk will play the role of a guard, a counterpart, a stronghold, a wall, something that blocks the killer. This is the strategy against him. We will see whether Hinni (how friends call him) is able to control the other fish. We truly believe in his potential.

The journey starts now...