If you had to be a bird or a fish, which would you be?

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I like to ask my friends stupid questions more often than not, especially when they’re in the middle of focusing on a life or death situation… well maybe not to that extent, or when I’ve found them neck deep in a problem solving scenario and they’re styling a full set of blinkers.

I find it either pulls them out of their funk and they thoroughly enjoy pondering the perplexities of the possibilities, ooor they tell me to shoosh and why don’t I try answering one of my own questions for a change. I tend not to answer them because it’s not so black and white as I’ve laid it out. For instance, if you had to be a bird or a fish, what would you be?

If the question tantalises the imagination I’m usually hit with an onslaught of questions like, what sort of bird, can I fly, a big bird or a small bird, am I more like a majestic eagle, oh am I a baby chicken cause I don’t want to be a baby chicken although they’re pretty cute. Hmm but a fish? What kind of fish, am I like a barramundi in the wild, or someone’s pet gold fish, or am I more like a deep-sea marlin, maybe I could be a poisonous lion fish?

Wow has this simple pre-emptive question become a complex web of choices to make. I usually don’t set any parameters, the choice is at their full discretion accounting for all scenarios at their leisurely pleasure. About ninety percent choose bird, I always ask why, and the answer is because they can fly. So, the flying bird takes the cake, and yes, it is usually something like an eagle. I don’t blame such a choice, imagine the world from a bird’s eye view, not just the x plain at your whim but the y and z plains too! Plus, eagles look pretty shmicko, those powerful talons! No one ever chooses a dodo though.

I’m going to attempt to answer my own question here; fish I choose fish… aaand bird together at the same time, a flying fish? That’s a thing! I dislike limitations. Think about being a fish for a second, all that unexplored domain flowing past your glittery gills, look how you’ve immediately gained the super power to breathe under water too, what was that, did you just see a mermaid!? Naaah it’s just your fishy upside-down eyes playing watering tricks on you. You could explore the crevices of every single sunken warship, fleet, navy vessel, pirate boat... ship, or catamaran for their lost treasures and nik-naks. Float on through Atlantis and live among a coral encrusted reef city of surface-scraping proportions. You still have access to x, y and z plains but in a denser form, plus you probably glow in the dark or communicate with some intelligent photophore flash card system. In an ironic way I am already a fish, I’m what they call ‘plankton’ here in this Steemit world, perhaps more like plankton offspring, I wonder how plankton reproduce.

So if you’re still with me, to celebrate this conundrum, I’ve whipped up some fitting artwork to take your mind on a journey of possibilities and choice. Given, dolphins are not fish but they are like the eagle of the fish world.