A spiritual master saw a scorpion drowning and decided to pull it out of the water. When he did, the scorpion stung him.

The master tried to pull the scorpion out again but the scorpion stung him once more.

Puzzled, a young disciple who was there approached the master and asked:

- Excuse me master, but why do you go on? Don't you understand that every time you try to pull the scorpion out of the water it stings you?

The master replied:

- The nature of the scorpion is to sting and that will not change mine, which is to help.

Saying this and trying this time with the help of a leaf, the master pulled the scorpion out of the water and saved his life.

Then turning to his young disciple, he continued:

- Don't change your nature if someone hurts you, just take precautions, because people are almost always ungrateful for the help you give them. But this is no reason to stop doing good, to abandon the compassion that is your very nature.

How many stories do you tell yourself in a day? What if there were no stories?