Incident at a Sushi Restaurant 🍣 I feel that I'm becoming Vegetarian 🌿

So a few days ago I went to a sushi restaurant with my girlfriend, and the hostess sat us at a table that was directly facing a container with fish. For the first 15 or 20 minutes I didn't notice the fish, I was too busy looking at the menu and the conveyer belt endlessly moving food around like a choo-choo train. However, when I really noticed the fish, I couldn't take my eyes off of them.

There were two medium sized fish were in a cuboid container that was too small for them to turn their bodies around. The fish on the left was floating upside down (at first I didn't notice that it was upside down, and I had jokingly told myself that it was meditating). The fish on the right was swimming, well more like wiggling its body because there wasn't much space. Then, I observed that the fish on the right was attempting to turn around, but it kept hitting its face against the glass. Somehow it managed to bend its body in a way that allowed it to start to turn around. As it turned around, its face go pressed up against the glass and it made eye contact with me... the ape sitting outside the glass on dry land.

After looking into my eyes for about a second, it completed its turn-around and swam towards the upside down fish just a few centimetres away. The fish used its head to nudge the upside down fish, and suddenly it woke up! The upside down fish was alive all along! Upon waking up, it swam hurriedly straight ahead and kept bumping its face against the glass over and over again. While this was happening, the fish on the right decided to turn around again and go back to its side of the container.

In this restaurant full of staff and customers I wondered, 'Am I the only one seeing this?!'

I could feel the desperation in those fish. Every animal is just trying to survive. Some animals even decide to help each other out while in captivity. In Malaysia, I once saw a free bird repeatedly deliver food to a bird in a cage.

Anyways, since this incident at the sushi restaurant it doesn't feel right to eat meat anymore. I feel that I can gladly give up meat, so the suffering of those fish that I saw won't be in vain. If I get any cravings to eat meat, I will gladly endure them because the purpose will be strong (this matches with the concept of 'logotherapy' mentioned by Viktor Frankl in the book Man's Search for Meaning).

Thank you for reading, I don't who to talk to about this lol.