the reflections of abis.

Yesterday night before sleeping i wished to hear some story, its has become an old practice these days to induce sleep by story telling. So, my room mate Gokul started the story…

Once a sage saw a scorpion falling into water, in the process of helping this scorpion to get out of water, the sage had to endured a sting. But, the scorpion again and again kept falling into water and every time it was rescued, it stung the sage. An onlooker was surprised and asked the sage why he was showing mercy to the cruel scorpion. The sage replied “To sting, is the scorpions character, to show mercy is my character”
“Which fool will do like this”! we broke out into laughter on hearing the story. Gokul reasoned out that one should help others without putting oneself into pain. I thought for a while what i would have done, I would have rescued the scorpion but once it shows its true colour I would have killed it on the spot itself! Other questions… why dont we rescue the scorpion using a stick and put some where away from the water… With all this pointless talks, the bed time story continued untill midnight diverting into diverse topics!

Well, there are some intresting facts about the scorpion itself…

The speciality of the scorpion species is its tail… some scorpions are born with two tails

The scientific term for the sting is telson and produces the venom

Scorpion venom are not poisoness to humans, except swelling and slight pain

Scorpions can live b/w 4 to 25 years!

They cannot digest solid food

There are no scorpions in Newzealand

Some scorpions grow upto 9.75 feet!