Deception
The art of deliberately misleading, tricking, or causing someone to believe something false or invalid.
There is a saying I used to hear my grandparents say, "Oh what a tangled web we weave when we're quick to deceive.
As a teenager, I didn't understand it, but now the saying makes perfect sense.
I feel like for nine months I've put into something that I thought was growing into something real, but now I'm not completely sure of any of it at all.
I understand that most of what is on social media is for show or content, but when do you separate the two from the content and real life?
Deception sometimes can come from you, basically seeing what you want to see, not what is true.
As I stated earlier, I've been in a situation for nine months now, and I am wondering if this has been smoke and mirrors to play on my sympathy, or did I fall for the real person behind the smoke and mirrors?
Deception can break a person, and as that person who feels deceived, do I keep going into the deceit, or do I step back and view it as a test of my strength to see this person past the persona?
I will keep going to this with an open mind, but my fear is upfront about the deception that is coming to the surface. I refuse to keep being afraid because of the deception I'm starting to see as smoke and mirrors.
