If Gold Rust What Iron Will Do

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are genuinely courteous and benign; people that we should strive to be like. Often when the severity of a situation becomes intolerable we resort to the child inside us who has never ceased to believe in the existence of Santa Claus, or has not even for a second called into doubt the loyalty of best friends. This child never grows up and never learns to mistrust people – just like Peter Pan who believes that the only right he has when it comes to you is fairness.

But people cheat and deceive. They are trite and they are glib. It’s an arduous task to find a modicum of truth or fairness in the world today. We often stick a label saying “Best person” to a friend or a mere acquaintance, because we desperately want to believe that good still prevails over evil (as the child inside us believes), and we play a spectacular game of make believe. We go around telling ourselves that he/she is modest, generous, conscientious and incorruptible but we are just beating about the bush, ...

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