True Kindness and a Real Friend.

This week has been one of the worst, emotionally, for a very long time. Why?

When suddenly you've had a moment of clarity, the "pieces of the puzzle finally falling into place", and you have realized that you've been used and manipulated, for some years, it is a terrible feeling.

To have the power to remove another's sense of self is dangerous, and it does happen and, unfortunatelty, too frequently.

But you continue to 'love' this person, hoping circumstances might change...this does not happen when you are dealing with a self-cognizant manipulator.

I guess it is the thought that you have really been used; invested time, so much love and money, ignoring the other people in your life that you love and care for, then it all comes to not...

Their true colours reveal themselves and denial is the first port of call.

"How could I have been so stupid!" (An ego thing.)

The emotional tail spin is all too real.

Life now seems out of control, everything that you trust now is untrustworthy.

Then, out of the blue, you receive a package from an old friend, (just when you're about to give up) and inside the package is a book, a philosophical text that is rare.

He knows you love this writer, and running across it in a second hand book store, decides to buy the text and send it to you. (Even though he really can't afford it.)

This thoughtful act of kindness pulled me out of the haze of denial and self-pity, knowing that there is a sensitive friend who cares, selflessly.

Stronger now because of my friend's selfless action, life is now worth living.

True kindness, selfless kindness, is one of the greatest attributes a human being can have...and my friend, well, at this time, without knowing it, you saved my emotional life, and you have given me back my love for the world and humankind.

Thank you.