The explanation he provided was that, since our friends know more about us and we are likely to trust them more than to our enemies, they have the greatest potentials to harm us, just like in the case of Julius Caesar and Brutus. Although we accepted it, it was not cheerfully, in part because it meant that we were all wrong and mainly because our protected minds could not envision such an insidious possibility. At least i think it was what we thought.

However, with age comes the realisation that not all who profess to love you will not harm you. I do not mean that they will harm you intentionally because more often than not, they don't. Nor is the purpose of this post meant to deride the people who do take advantage of people's trust in them to do hurtful things, as i have found out over these years, is very possible.

Rather, i hope that we all understand the potentials that we have in us to hurt others and be mindful. I look forward to that one day in which the statement will no longer be a truth, nor even a possibility but a thing of the past, to be thrown away and forgotten.