The Tortoise's Test

Don't settle for someone who doesn't fully bring you joy, someone who doesn't close to perfectly mesh with you. Divorce rates are way too high to risk loosing something so uniquely special.

No matter how hard it is to resist the bait at the end of a fishing line, Fish must always remember the possibility that there might be a hook hiding underneath...

A Fish can be tempted by the fresh smell of a worm, but they must always ask themselves, "COULD there be a better treat waiting for me?"

Time- to- time we go fishing and cast our line into a glistening pool, waiting for a Fish to grab hold of our hook, which sinks into the great blue deep

Yet normally it's when we wait patiently, expecting  it the least, that our line will begin to jump,

rewarding us with the richest breed of salmon from beneath.

The fisherman won't eat a Fish that he does not enjoy to eat, so why would a Fish grab hold of a hook clamped to a half- bodied leach?

Fish,

always remember! Why would you settle for a half- bodied leach if there is something better for you, someone who will nourish your body to a much healthier reach!

Talk to the blow fish, talk to the eel, talk to the wise tortoise too! They will all tell you there is no use in following a hook dressed with foul food!

Set limits and boundaries for yourself, knowing what you will and won't follow

Only pursue a fisher's hook at it's best, here's something you need to swallow;

only when you have been caught and the fisher lovingly releases you back to your liquid nest is when you know that hook will never harm you

it has passed the companion test.

This little allegory has been written for you my friend,

The Fish represents your society's image of a list called "what you must", always falling into hurtful traps and believing that love can only come from the bait of lust...

But the fisherman represents your true love, waiting patiently for you, and willing to give up his own desires for the good of your own...

Don't settle for a rusted hook beckoning you through the oceans hypocritical waves when there are plenty more fish in the sea.

  I could understand if you wouldn't want to take this advise because it's told by a talking fish caught by fisherman and then lovingly set free,

but would this story be easier for you to conceive if i told you these love-blind fish were once me?

 

I'll sum this note into three easy steps, hoping they'll help you live your life to it's best:

Turn from the temptation by just saying No, Don't settle, and "yay" for boundaries

May you live a life full and blessed.

 

...now that you have been challenged are you brave enough to accept the steps to The Tortoise's Test?

Reviews

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Interesting idea... I like the concept. You have to be careful what you settle for, and be sure that the thing you reach for in those murky waters is truly something that you want deeply to your core, because you might find a hook underneath the bait. The hook might not be a bad thing if the morsel on the end is the absolute epitomy of your own personal nirvana...you may die a happy death in having indulged, but if you just grab at ever piece dangling about you're going to end up being sorry in the end. Very introspective...

[Meliss@k]

I'm so glad that the point was clear enough that you kiterally understood every detail that I was trying to relay! Thank you so mic for this review!

[DeCipher]

Very good! Now the only thing is, you can become too passive as well. You might pass up that perfect piece of bait because you were scared. You must be diligent!

[Meliss@k]

very very true!

[Erinne S.]

I loved the unique quality of this piece. It is definitely not something I have read before. I really enjoyed it and thank you for sharing :)

~Erinne

[Meliss@k]

thank you so much for this kind kind review Erinne S

[Adam :P]

good write

[Meliss@k]

thank you Adam :P

[AYVID N]

It's different and refreshing and ...so clever. Great work. DN

[Meliss@k]

Oh my goodness, I am being so humbled right now. Y'alls kind words are so uplifting. Thank you for your input!

[zainul]

Awesome!

[Meliss@k]

thank you so much! The Tortoise's Test is a passion of mine that i hope others will catch on to and spread. :)

[zainul]

It is really amazing.
Well,I take the assignment as a volunteer to spread. :)

[Meliss@k]

eek! :) I'm becoming giddy with everyone's kindness toward my poetry!
Thank you again, Zainul for your support and I give all of the glory that my poems bring to my Lord, Jesus Christ. :)