Let me tell you a fable, which I am sure many have heard, but I have a real life example as it happened to me yesterday.
The scorpion and the frog
The scorpion was walking on the banks of the river, looking for a way to cross, as scorpions are not the greatest swimmers and due to their small size will be carried down the floodwater of the river and drown. As the scorpion walked he noticed a frog. Frogs on the other hand are great swimmers. So the scorpion walked up to the frog and asked if he can sit on the frog's back and then the frog swims through the river.
The frog said: But you are a scorpion, you will sting me and I will drown
Scorpion : Why will I do that? If I sting you, we will both end up in the water and we will both drown.
The frog accepted the explanation and offered the scorpion a ride on his back across the river. As they reached the middle of the river, the scorpion stung the frog in the back and the veracious venom steadily started working and the frog was paralysed, and started to drown. Just before the frog went under water he asked the scorpion.
Frog: Why did you do that, we are both going to drown now?
Scorpion: I am a scorpion and this is in my nature!
Influence
This Steemit application has given each and every one of us the ability to influence, by giving our opinions about other users posts and articles. This should not be taken lightly and is a massive responsibility. I am personally on this platform because I just Love it and find that it gives me an outlet to write about things that I find interesting. I never knew that I would enjoy writing so much :) I always try to add value to all users on the platform. The reason I always want to add value, is that it is *in my nature I enjoy seeing people around me being successful. Why? I have seen this in action. I always try to surround myself with people that knows more than me, as I can learn from them.
My logic is as follow:
- If you treat everybody around you well, they want to treat you well.
- If they do well, you will by default also do well.
The contradiction
In contradiction to this, some users are on the platform only to steal SBD out of the eco-system and ruin people's reputations. I have been featuring many users over the past few weeks, as I believe this is a way to assist the community by providing a diversity of content and at the same time provide the authors I feature a way to be seen. Furthermore, I am a business man that's been in business for many years, and I see the featuring as a business transaction. I paid all the SBD which were paid out to the featured author and I kept the STEEMPOWER. I did this because I am a firm believer in the platform, and believe that STEEMPOWER might be worth a lot of money at some stage in the future.
, you are a fucking scorpion and the sad thing is that you cannot change and will be walking with this mark on your back for the rest of your life.
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