The Scorpion and the frog.

I know, two in one day, and this is nothing to do with having a baby at all, but it's been on my mind a lot, and screw it, this is my blog, I can write what I like.

There's a fable about a Scorpion and a Frog that goes like this:
Frog was going to cross a river, when it heard a voice say "please help me across, carry me on your back, I can't swim, please help me", the frog looks around and see's it's Scorpion, so Frog says "but if I carry you on my back, you will sting me!" and Scorpion says "no! no! I promise, I would never hurt you if you are helping me, we will both get across the river"
Frog, being very kind, agree's to help Scorpion cross the river and lets him climb on his back. But once they are halfway across the river, Scorpion stings Frog with his poisonous tail, and Frog cries out "why did you do that!?! now we will both drown" and Scorpion replies "But I am a Scorpion, it is just what I do"

I've been thinking about this a lot, because I have come to realize, this is the first time in my life that I'm not busy being stung by people who are scorpions, who hurt me just because "it's just what they do". And I think its the first time in my life I'm not accepting 'they can't help it' as a reason to stick around people who do more damage to me than good. And it's kind of sad in some ways, because some of those scorpions had some good qualities too...up until the point they stung me. Maybe I'm growing up a little bit, or getting stronger or maybe I just realize that I can't afford to let people hurt me and send me into massive depressive spirals any more.

Though I also have to knowledge that sometimes I have been the scorpion, sometimes I have done bad things to people because "it's just what I do" and I really hope that I can change from that.