“I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine”

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

My daughter just told me to "stop acting like you fear the sun" - I don't know what this means but it feels like a crazy proverb We should collect proverbs from children, seems like a cool art project - there does seem to be a deep wisdom within them that's inaccessible to us