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Are your friends bringing you down?
Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down.
The Bible says, "He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm." - Proverbs 13:20 NIV
A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, once asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. "Are you mad?" exclaimed the turtle. "You will sting me while I'm swimming and I'll drown."
The scorpion laughed as he replied, "My dear turtle, if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you. Now, what would be the point of that? I won't sting you. It would mean my own death!"
The turtle thought about the logic of his argument for few moments and then said, "You're right. Hop on!" The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river, he gave the turtle a mighty sting.
As the turtle began to sink to the bottom of the river with the scorpion on its back, it moaned in dismay, "After your promise, you still stung me! Why did you do that? Now, we are both doomed."
The drowning scorpion sadly replied, "I couldn't help it. It is my nature to sting."
STUDY THE CHARACTER OF A PERSON BEFORE YOU MAKE THEM A FRIEND. THE STAGE ON WHICH THEIR CHARACTER PLAYS IS GOING TO BE YOUR life!
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