Let me give you a short story, that might come in handy in plenty of situations.
And when you meet your particular scorpion - you’ll remember this story and realize “Oh yeah, he was right”
Once upon a time, there was a scorpion, and this particular one wanted to get across the river.
But, scorpions can’t swim, so this was an issue.
And a scorpion gets to the edge of the river, where he sees a frog swimming around, happily.
So he hails the frog. And the frog swims up. Stays at a safe distance.
He looks at the scorpion and says, What can I help you with today, Mr. Scorpion?
Scorpion says:
Brother frog, I need to get across the river. If you could be so kind and let me hop on your back, you can take me there and I’ll be on my merry way. And the frog looks at him and says:
“No, that’s not a good idea at all, you’re a scorpion, you dump frogs, you sting us. And then you hop on my back, let’s say I’ll let you, and then we’ll be at the river and you sting me…and I’ll be lifeless.
No, I’m not taking you there.
Scorpion says:
“Mr. Frog, use your little frog brain for a moment. Let’s say I jump on your back and we start swimming, and if I sting you - then we’ll both die. That’d be dumb. I don’t want to die, doesn’t make any sense. I can’t swim, otherwise, I wouldn’t need you”
So, the frog thinks about this for a moment and realizes that it makes a lot of logical sense.
And he says: “You know what? I’ll help a brother out. Hop on my back, I’ll take you there, no problem”
Sure enough, the scorpion hops on his back, the frog starts paddling.
Halfway across the river, he feels a scorpion’s sting, and as the venom starts coursing through his veins, his muscles start cramping up, with his last energies, he looks over his shoulder, at the scorpion and says, why did you do that? Now we’re both gone!
As they are starting to drown, the scorpion looks at him and says, “Because I’m a scorpion”
Now the moral of the story is that you can’t do a good deal with a bad guy.
There are people that will self-destruct, even if it means mutual destruction.
They don’t care. They always mess things up.
So, before you go into any deal, any relationship, any whatever, look at what has happened in the past and realize that if they’ve blown everything to bits in the past, they’ll do so again.
You just might be talking to a scorpion and they will come up with all sorts of excuses, all sorts of reasons why.
But in essence, it is because they are scorpions.
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