Ordinary people learn the skill of tricking other people into thinking that they're more than what they really are. In reality, though, they are jealous, manipulative, and self-centered. We all know people like this. They appear like they genuinely care for us as a person, call us by our first name, but beware that while we see syrup drip from their lips.....they're sharpening their knife on our heart.
These people are intelligent and know every trick in the book to hide their real identity. They work terribly hard at maintaining the illusion, and they really don't care how they hurt others in the process. They're like the jelly fish that floats and shimmers in the water. They look sweet and fragile, but underneath their feelers are ready and waiting to strike and to sting.
Eventually we tire of people like this, and it gets to the point where we have to decide whether or not to delete them from our contact list. I'll never understand why we all can't play nice and be done with it.
"Cunning is the art of
concealing our own defects,
and
discovering the weaknesses of others."
~William Hazlitt, British essayist