I choose descriptive! It may be hard to believe 🙂, but I usually cut out most of the saccharine fawning I type here before posting to avoid sounding histrionic. But let's indulge (this is a weekend for indulging on tank stuff).
I keep aquariums because... I simply have to, it's in my nature and I have no choice any more.
Before I kept aquariums, for a few years I had a fashion brand where every season I made slightly obsessive collages of mythical Greek nymphs and naiads layered over paintings of nature. Now, post-aquarium-discovery, I am the nymph, presiding over my own living painting of nature. I thought I was just inspired by nature then, but actually I was yearning for it, a missing piece of my life. Luckily, I found it in a random youtube video (curtesy of @foo_the_flowerhorn, a name which really undercuts how meaningful the videos were to me). During the pandemic my house was the only place I could exist in, home went from an sanctuary from the world to mundane capitivity. Once I discovered such beautiful magical tiny worlds existed, my path to attaining one of my own was practically automatic and quite obsessive. It became a need. So I harranged my family until they helped me create a new, miniature oasis in my room, and it was immediately a delight.
We live in a nature-blind society where many, maybe even most, can no longer see the wonder that exists in front of our eyes, honestly it's very sad. But we can see it, and we're very lucky to experience this sight. The natural world is so full of wonder and weirdness, so glorious and alien, so full of drama and colour. I feel so lucky to get to keep fish, plants and other odd creatures from at home and across the world - freshwater streams, rivers and ponds in Europe, Asia and South America, saltwater coral reefs and lagoons in the Caribbean, Pacific Islands and Australia, a fabulous cross-section of nature's wonders, just sitting in my house like portals to another dimension. When I look in one of my tanks, I can literally feel these ancient primordeal bits of my brain lighting up with glee.
It's just so fun, and that's not even mentioning how lovely the people are too!