Great and Good are seldom the same man. —WINSTON CHURCHILL A scorpion and a frog are sitting on the bank of a river, and both need to get to the other side. “Hello, Mr. Frog!” calls the scorpion through the reeds. “Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the water? I have important business to conduct on the other side. And I cannot swim in such a strong current.” The frog immediately becomes suspicious. “Well, Mr. Scorpion,” he replies, “I appreciate the fact that you have important business to conduct on the other side of the river. But just take a moment to consider your request. You are a scorpion. You have a large stinger at the end of your tail. As soon as I let you onto my back, it is entirely within your nature to sting me.” The scorpion, who has anticipated the frog’s objections, counters thus: “My dear Mr. Frog, your reservations are perfectly reasonable. But it is clearly not in my interest to sting you. I really do need to get to the other side of the river. And I give you my word that no harm will come to you.” The frog agrees, reluctantly, that the scorpion has a point. So he allows the fast-talking arthropod to scramble atop his back and hops, without further ado, into the water. At first all is well. Everything goes exactly according to plan. But halfway across, the frog suddenly feels a sharp pain in his back—and sees, out of the corner of his eye, the scorpion withdraw his stinger from his hide. A deadening numbness begins to creep into his limbs. “You fool!” croaks the frog. “You said you needed to get to the other side to conduct your business. Now we are both going to die!” The scorpion shrugs and does a little jig on the drowning frog’s back. “Mr. Frog,” he replies casually, “you said it yourself. I am a scorpion. It is in my nature to sting you.” With that, the scorpion and the frog both disappear beneath the murky, muddy waters of the swiftly flowing current. And neither of them is seen again. Bottom Line..........For the bottom line read an interesting excerpt from the book.... Friends read ....WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS...here is the link us.macmillan/BookCustomPage_New.aspx?isbn=9780374291358 But taking it as a general topic.....there are many who caused stings to us like the scorpion can be seen coming to us with a changed approach for a specific objective of them to achieve or under pressure from some one to be nice with you....but always the instinct to sting will always be there at majority of the cases.....It is unfortunate but it exists..... Wish you a nice reading.......
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