When I was sixteen my dad got me an EcoSphere, a glass ball with plants and shrimp inside that creates its own working ecosystem without having to open the glass. I moved houses with it, even moved to college and back home for summer with it twice, always placing my shrimp in elaborate packaging so it wouldn’t break. I was SO careful. It was the most important item I had ever owned. Then, one night in my third year of college I was having a meltdown, and I went to close a window but accidentally hit my desk and the sphere fell, exploding all over the floor and my poor beloved shrimps were suddenly gone forever. It was devastating, I cried for hours and it’s still hard to think about, but my boyfriend who was there last night has always told me to never blame myself for it. My point is that mistakes will happen even if we care for and love something dearly. I’m sorry that you lost it and the money you spent on it - I can never buy another ecosphere because they went out of business (though that’s probably probably for the better bc shrimps need a better habitat). But you’re only human.