A story of an old man and Scorpion

Muhammad Zeeshan
1 min readNov 27, 2019

Once upon a time there is an old man living in the city and he decided to migrate to some other place. While travelling, a jungle comes in his way. He was moving forward and crossing a lake through a wooden bridge. When he was in the middle, suddenly he saw a scorpion struggling for its life as it was sinking in the water. The old man move forward to save the Scorpion. While he was picking the Scorpion from water, Scorpion did a bite on his hand and it get dropped from his hand.

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A man behind the old man was watching all the scene silently. After the third attempt the man asked the old man that:

Why don’t you let the Scorpion sink as he is biting you again and again?

The old man replied:

Scorpion is bound with his nature and habit of biting and I am bound with my nature and habit of helping.

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