h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I found out that someone is being very underhand with me and lying to people that they apparently 'care' about - They are using my helpfulness, my love for them and my friendship to get what they want, while lying about important stuff to make them sound like they aren't really a nasty piece of work.

Well, I suppose all will come out in the wash, but what I can't understand is why don't they realise that lying (and it doesn't matter if it's a little white fib) won't make them a better or a more interesting person - it just hurts those around them and turns them into something even worse - a rotter, a cad (why can't I ever find the right word?).

When the other person finds out that they have been lying to them - friendships or relationships are irretrievably broken, they will never trust them again. They may say that they do, because they don't want to believe that this person would do such a thing, but there would be always something at the back of that persons head.

Trust should be paramount between friends - and usually you know just how much to tell them of your thoughts and fears, it just sickens me that someone so dispicable could use those same feelings to hurt that person. I don't always have 'rose tinted glasses' on, I know that there are some nasty people in the world.

I just never thought it would happen to me twice.