One day, a man chanced upon a crystalline pool of water while walking through the woods. Though the man was not in need of slaking his thirst, he found the water irresistible. He stopped at the pool and peered into the water. The water glistened and revealed great depth. Overcome with the beauty of the pool, as man might be when examining as a flawless diamond, the man drank deeply. The water tasted very sweet. The earth, however, had laced the water with toxins and the man almost immediately fell to the ground and succumbed to the appealing poison.
A man found himself lost in the deep forest one day. Late in the evening and in need of satisfying his thirst, he chanced upon a rancid pool of murky water. The scent of sulfur filled the man’s nostrils as he knelt before the shallow pool. When he dipped his hands into the water, the man discovered that the water warm. Though repulsed by the pool, the man drank deeply of the foul-tasting water, and then continued walking through the forest.
--Mitchell Hegman
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