My name is the Neon Tetra, and the reason for that is that I have always had a particular fondness for that particular fish. The first time I saw neon tetras, I was so amazed - they were like little floating neon lights - just beautiful and graceful and colorful and tiny. All so unlike humans and the world around us.
They swim as if with an attitude, and yet there is no sense of arrogance. They are literally filled with radiant color, and yet they are not gaudy or pretentious. They are tropical, and yet they look so cool and calm. They are perfectly balanced in their way, and I can not help but envy all they have and portray.
Were it not for my fear of having another aquarium, a fear which found birth on the morning of the Hanshin Earthquake in Japan (where 3/4 of the water and most of the fish in the tank ended up on the floor), I would gladly set up a colony in my room right now.
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