The Annual Update

We can't handle deceit or betrayal. 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 hang handle earthquakes and cancer, and even death. But they can't handle betrayal, and they can't handle deception. People 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. Psychophysiologically, it damages them. But more than that, it makes them cynical, bitter and vicious and resentful. ...