The Sting Of The Black Scorpion

There's a fable that really describes the dark devious nature of the human soul entitled "The Scorpion and the Frog" and if you're not familiar with it, I would like to present it for your enjoyment, amusement and edification. "One day a scorpion arrived at the bank of a river he wanted to cross, but there was no bridge. He asked a frog that was sitting nearby if he would take him across the river on his back. The frog refused and said, 'I will not, because you will sting me.'
"The scorpion replied, 'It would be foolish for me to sting you because then we would both drown.'
"The frog saw the logic in the scorpion's words, and agreed to carry the scorpion across. But when they were halfway across the river the scorpion stung the frog. The stunned frog asked, 'Why did you sting me? Now we will both die!'
"The scorpion replied, 'Because I'm a scorpion … and that's what scorpions do.'"

Now, you may be asking yourself, "what does this story have to do with this blog?" Well, I think that's the right question to be asking and over the next several months, in story form, I will be answering that very question and many more that haven't even been thought of yet and I will be delving into the true nature of mankind in very exacting detail.

We are like the leopard and we cannot change our spots and even more telling, we don't want to. We tend to be very comfortable in our "skin" and even brag and boast in a very prideful way about how disposable relationships and people are based upon our nature. We live in a "what's in it for me?" and "I require excitement" culture with little regard for lasting relationships.

So, having briefly laid out the initial purpose of this blog, I will tell you this: This is a story of deceit, greed, selfishness and betrayal that spans over ten years. The names and places have been changed to protect the innocent, though no one, I repeat, no one in this story is innocent.

Finally, you may be wondering what the name Oaxactun has to do with any of this and I hope you are. Well, the bottom of the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza in Central America has revealed may fine objects of gold and jade along with the skeletal remains of human and animal sacrifices where the heart had been ripped out of the body while it was still beating as an offering to the gods. Blood flowed freely down the sides of the alter as the body was carelessly thrown into the deep dark well below. This blog is a recanting of just such a sacrifice, where the human heart isn't physically ripped from the body, but rather it is broken in the same disregarding manner for the sake of the gods of the human condition "what's in it for me" and "excitement."

This is a tale of the nature of the scorpion, the spots on the leopard and the total cold-hearted disregard for the human heart and certainly not a story about a man named Jed, just bearly keeping his family fed.

Till next time, may you find peace, may you find encouragement, may you find love and may you find now.