Patience Is A Virtue
January 14, 2021 Uncategorized 0 comment slindsay21
Patience is an important trait in a person, because sometimes the only thing you can do is wait. My dad is probably the most impatient person I know. When he wants me to take out the trash he doesn’t stop bothering me until I do so, or when we go fishing and he’ll fish for about 10 minutes and then give up. Me and my family go down to Boothbay Harbor about once a year on July 4th to watch the fireworks and go out to eat and what not. My favorite part about this whole trip is mackerel fishing off of the dock at the hotel we stay at. Me and my dad usually bring our poles out to the dock and fish while my dad cracks open a cold one.
When we went down to Boothbay my freshman year, me and my papa were the only ones fishing because my dad had given up of course giving the classic one-liner, “There ain’t no fish in here”, but let me tell you there were fish in there. After about 3 hours I had hooked onto something big without knowing what it was. I had my deep-sea fishing pole with me which is a lot bigger and has stronger line on it for catching bigger fish, and I was reeling in effortlessly an 18-inch striped bass, the first I ever caught. Now of course 18 inches was the shortest a striper had to be to keep in the state of Maine, so me and my cousin cooked up my striper and his striper from earlier and we ate them.
This story goes to show you that when you wait good things can come out of it. My dad even said that he was proud of me for being so patient and getting a rather hard-to-catch fish. But with the help of my Papa we weren’t giving up without catching anything, and so by sun down, the mackerel started coming in schools and everybody was catching them when they finally heard that the fish were coming in, but me, I was patient and caught the biggest fish there that day.
