*Olivia*
One month later
In elementary school, we used to have a motivational poster on the walls of the principal's office. It was of a line of cartoon birds sitting on a telephone wire, except one of the birds wasn’t a bird at all.
It was a fish. All the birds were happy and smiling, but the fish was not. The birds avoided the fish like the plague.
The poster said, “Just because you’re a fish, doesn’t mean you can’t hang with the birds.”
Honestly, the poster always confused me. How did the fish get on the telephone wire? How was it breathing air? Why were the birds all laughing when the fish looked so sad? Why was the fish sad in the first place?
It didn’t make sense to my young brain, and it still didn’t.
