Engyo Mike Barrett wrote;
“Trust is a very interesting issue. I was taught once that you can trust absolutely anybody, on ONE CONDITION: You must trust them to be EXACTLY AS THEY ARE and not as you want or expect them to be. The trick becomes understanding them as they are and not as I think or feel they should be”.
There is a story…
about a scorpion and a frog. One day the scorpion, in his travels, came up to the edge of a great pond. Not wanting to travel all the way around the pond to get to the other side he approached a frog resting on a lily pad near by.
He called out to the frog, “Oh frog! Please, won’t you let me ride on your back to the other side of the pond?” The frog replied, naturally, “I would normally help any other creature who called upon me for assistance but you are a SCORPION and I am afraid that you would sting me and I would die!”
To this the scorpion answered, “I understand, but please be assured that if I stung you I, not being able to swim, would sink to the bottom and die myself!” The frog thought about this for several minutes and finally decided that in fact he would trust the scorpion and give him a ride on his back to the other side.
The scorpion and the frog swam to the middle of the pound when all of the sudden the scorpion raised it’s tail and stung the frog in the back several times. As the frog began to perish it asked in despair, “Why have you stung me when you yourself will certainly die?” To this the scorpion answered;
“Because I am a scorpion….”
Posted by revgreg at May 3, 2004 12:20 PM