Sometimes goldfish grow bigger when they are taken out of their confines.  Sometimes people are confined for so long that when they are freed they can never know it, for the confine has become their mind.  I fear that I am the latter.  The difference between animals and humans is self-awareness, and perhaps this is a curse.  I think therefore I am.  Yet it is this awareness that damns us.  Why can't I be the goldfish?