Brief Summary Of The Short Story 'What Of This Goldfish'

Securing your happiness has it’s limits, but in order to find your happiness you have to go through fear to find it. In the short story, What of this Goldfish, Would you Wish it talks about being under pressure. Winning isn’t always everything, because sometimes winning can be painful in the long run. We’ve all have won and felt happiness in our lives, but there’s also fear and failure that looms over us when we don’t even know it. But what causes for fear is being pressured to do something to either you don’t want to do or it’s to choose between two things and once you choose one of the two you can’t get the other.

Everyone has always wondered with this question, “If I had three wishes what will I use them on?” But there are those who easily answer that question without hesitation. However others think really hard on all three questions, while others use …show more content…
My mom told me that we can move to Minnesota with our uncle for a better life style. She explained that in Minnesota the houses and rent is cheaper over there. We were struggling with money at the time, so it was hard for my mom to pay the bills. My mom also told me that we could stay here in California with my family and friends, but money would be hard. This put me under pressure. Thinking about moving to Minnesota scared me because I would have to go new a new school, make new friends, and live a different life style. I really didn’t want to deal with that, since i’ve always been shy around people I don't know, so I told her if it was okay to stay living in California and we did. Moving to Minnesota or staying in California would have impacted my whole life. I believed that staying with my friends was the most important thing to me so I stayed with them, knowing that I’d stay happy here most of the time, instead of being under pressure to find new friends and having to deal with a new