Reading Notes: The Foolish Turtle

I liked the stories about the Two Turtles the  best, specifically the foolish turtle. He goes on a trip with two geese by holding on with his mouth to a stick while the geese fly, holding each end of the stick. When someone makes fun of him, the turtle opens his mouth to tell them to shut up and falls to his death.

I like that the moral of this story is to literally keep your mouth shut. Sometimes it really is better for you to just not say anything. Words can get you in a lot of trouble and people seem to forget that. I think I would like to rewrite this story so that it is humans, and is simply about someone who can't keep quiet and ends up paying the consequences, just maybe not actually falling to their death.

Turtle by Pixabay

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