Actually, this is a parable (fairy tale) about how a fish and a bird can live together. For all its apparent simplicity of the plot and a clear indication of the “dear old man” in heaven, this is not an answer, but a question. Is it possible to connect the seemingly incompatible? How to resolve contradictions and incompatibility? God in this case is a symbol of compromise, which we constantly resort to, but which we purposefully ignore under the yoke of the cult of individualism and personal success. It is from him, symbolically, that the heroes of the parable leave, achieving what they want through... yes, sacrifice, the loss of part of themselves for the sake of love. But another hero of the story, the observer, will tell about this more vividly and simply.