On liars and cowards

It's so unfortunate that appearances can often be deceiving.You deal with people based on your opinion of them; it can be good or bad. But no matter how smart you think you are, turns out there are always other people much smarter than you. These are the people who have the capability of putting up a false front and deceiving you...in other words, LIARS. Funny thing is, they are also the ones who claim to be honest to the extent of being blunt. They feel free to hurt other people's feelings, use them, abuse them and dispose of them when and as they wish. We have all come across such people from a very early age. The time when back in school, the person who claimed to be your best friend, sharing your lunch during recess that your mom had lovingly prepared for you, copying your notes that you had been painstakingly making, taking your good stationary saying 'dost nahi ho?'(aren't you my friend); would turn her back towards you when you needed something in return. Or in college where when you were part of every extra-curricular activity and were every teacher's favourite, your so-called best friend secretly resented you for that and tried everything to pull you down whenever there was an opportunity. Or later in life when there was this one person in your life who claimed to feel as close to you as a sister, sharing everything, clothes, jewellery, recipes, secrets, one day just turns around and throws everything back at your face. But the worst is when people play with your feelings, boasting about what honest people they are, taking everything they need from you and turning out to be no different than that friend in school, infact worse. What do you do then? What do you do to these cowards who can't even admit that they had been lying to your face all along? Nothing! There is nothing that you can do except pick up what's left of your pride and battered soul and move on. But you know that life would never be the same again because some wounds never heal...