Is it ethically obtainable for us or for others to continue to believe those who have practiced on us or on them the business of lying, swindling, deception, manipulation and procrastination even for one single time? As far as I can see it, this is extremely difficult and goes beyond the fickle and poorly-acquired human opinion twisted by the conditions and state of affairs which are already affected by the cycles of time and the winds of change.
The way out of that requires a great deal of effort and should go toward wiping each one them out from our memory. Such a decisive move should be directed towards that end alone and we must never honor anyone of them, and hence ward off insulting ourselves, by the erroneous willingness to invest time and effort in waiting for them to change. We must never accord a bit of thinking to such a dramatic scenario.
For gone, indeed, is that time in which we used to believe or hope for them to understand one day the meaning of how to counter agony and deception with patience and discretion and how to offer more goodness to goodness instead of bastardization, denial and ill faith. Gone completely is that time in which we used to ponder that we would eventually arrive at something different lurking behind harshness and deception.
What we have come to find, instead, is a new update to much of ignorance, procrastination, insincerity, manipulation and trickery coupled with a demand for us to condone and succumb to them and a surprise from them over our resistance and knowledge of what their hearts plot in secret, what their silence stupidly reveals and what their words pathetically conceal.
There seems to be no use here in elaborating more and I should perhaps finish with this call without adding anything to it further:
"Bring my arms to me
To hone them with the salt of tears.
Bring tears to my eyes
So that the dead among us
Cries over the living."
- Chokri Omri
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