The Scorpion And The Frog

小七

今晚許下願望，每天忘懷一件不該記得的人事物。當我間或出神地迷失在記憶片段的諸多空白裡，希望僅記忘懷。忘懷就是，憶起也不驚動，亦不掛念。

《The Scorpion And The Frog》
Æsop's Fables

One day a scorpion was walking along the riverbank trying to find a way to get across the river that separated him from his desired location when he came across a frog sitting alongside the riverbank. The scorpion walked up to the frog and asked the frog if he would take him across the river.

The frog quickly replied, "No, I would not give you a ride." The scorpion then asked him why.

The frog replied, "Because Mr. Scorpion if I gave you a ride on my back you would sting me and I would drown." Quickly the scorpion replied, "But Mr. Frog, if I stung you then you would drown and if you drown then I would drown also."

The frog thought for a moment and then said, "I guess you're right, then I will give you a ride." The scorpion jumps on the frog's back and they start crossing the river.

Half way across the river the frog suddenly feels a sharp pain in his back, as the scorpion stings him. The frog immediately starts to panic as he feels the venom race through his veins and he quickly begins to become paralyzed. Just as he is taking his last breath and about to go down, the frog looks at the scorpion and asks "Why did you do it? You promised not to sting me! Now we are both going to drown!"

The scorpion replies, "I'm sorry, Sir, but I could not help it - it's my nature."