Awakening

The moment you realize you have been fooled is an awakening of sorts. This form of awakening is not a pleasant experience. You feel like an idiot.

Deception has many faces. You can be deceived by your partner, parents, best friend, salespeople, mainstream and social media, politicians, gurus, and religious leaders. You can also be deceived by yourself and your ideas about who you are and how the world works.

Before awakening, you may feel great or depressed, wise or stupid, but after, you always feel like an idiot. ”How could I let myself be deceived like that?”