The people I've seen who've been really hurt have been hurt most by deceit. That's worth thinking about.
You get walloped by life. There's absolutely no doubt about that.But I thought for a long time that people can handle earthquakes and cancer, and even death.
But they can't handle betrayal, and they can't handle deception. They can't
handle having the rug pulled out from underneath them by people they love
and trust. That does them in, you know? It makes them ill. It hurts them.
Psychologically, it damages them.
But more than that, it makes them cynical, bitter and vicious, and resentful. And then they start to act all that out in the world, and that makes it worse.
