We all want some sense of control. There’s no use denying it. It might be over something as trivial as the weather, or the release date of the next Pokemon game to wanting control over your life, or control over others.
Having control gives us a sense of power, a sense of authority. It makes us feel important.
However, like most things – nothing good can be expected when too much control, too much power, too much authority is given to those who don’t deserve it.
There are bad people in this world. People who are selfish, that lie, and deceive and cheat and don’t give a damn about anyone else. They take advantage of the weak, those that are too trusting and too naïve to think any different.
They’ll tell riddles filled with lies and compose intricate webs of deceit – only to stand back and watch others fall when it all unravels. When they’re finally exposed for what they are. Then they leave, without an ounce of guilt. They simply walk away with another notch on their belt.
Their victims are left empty, used, spinning and confused. The irreversible damage already done.
As a bystander, what can you do? How would you tell someone they’re being cheated? You can’t change people. You can’t change the way they were brought up or the way they think. They’re going to live their life the way they think they should. You can give them advice. Tell them what you wish they would do.
At the end of they day, they are their own person. You don’t have control over how they think and you can’t stop them from believing what they want to believe.
And it sucks.
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defence
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
~ The Fray – How to Save a Life
a posse ad esse non valet consequentia,
coconut.
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