THAT’S WHAT SCORPIONS DO

THAT’S WHAT SCORPIONS DO

                                                                                                            Stes de Necker

Some time ago I posted this article on my Website, but it is so relevant still today that I would like to share it with you once again.

The senseless spate of farm murders in South Africa that is consuming the very fiber of our society at the moment, reminds me once again of a story I heard about the frog and the scorpion.

The frog and the scorpion were stranded on an island in a river, when the scorpion said to the frog:

“The water is rising and if we do not get off the island soon, we will both drown. You can swim, but I cannot. Let me climb on your back and then you can swim with me on your back to the other side of the river where we will both be safe.”

The frog thought about this for a moment and replied:

“But I do not trust you! What guarantee do I have that you will not kill me on the way over?”

The scorpion replied:

“I promise that I will not kill you, especially not after you would have been so kind to me.”

“Ok” said the frog, “get on and let’s go.”

Lo and behold, halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog, and in his dying moments, the frog said to the scorpion:

“What have you done!...  How could you! … You promised!  Now we both gonna die!

Why did you do it!?”

The scorpion replied:

“Because that’s what scorpion do!”

Maybe we should stop trying to find the answers in complex explanations and experts’ opinions.

Maybe we should stop putting the blame on political ideology or religious dogma.

Maybe the answer was always in front of us; we just dont want to accept it.

“Because that’s what scorpion do!”