Response to "Take This Fish and Look at It"

Basically the whole “moral” of the story is to really observe the items in your life. There’s more to objects than just the basics. The more you spend time observing something; you could discover things about it that you never saw before. It was interesting to me how the Professor got his student to learn this by simply telling him to look at a fish. The student was able to continually give his professor new knowledge on the fish. This story made me think about all the things in life that I’ve never really taken time to look at. Small details in pictures or jewelry could make the object more special or make it seem more interesting. It’s basically going along with “don’t judge a book by its cover”, you don’t know something unless you dig a little deeper. This logic of looking deeper into something could also apply to meeting new people. When you first meet someone, you don’t really know anything about them. You guess what the person is like from the first impression. After talking or seeing the person more you get a better feel of who that person actually is. It takes more than a couple glances to really get to know someone or something.