FIVE PEOPLE YOU MUST AVOID, PART THREE
BEWARE OF THOSE WHO HURT YOU IN ORDER TO WIN THE ADMIRATION OF OTHERS
Beware of people who have no code they live by. They dress well and talk nice, but have no honor. Their hearts bear no sanctuary, and so they can't keep an oath.
They appear friendly and trustworthy, but to them, you're just another assignment. Every secret and flaw you share with them are data worth selling if the price is right. They are close to you because they want to know what's going on in your life, how well you're doing, how bad or good things are, and what your next plan is.
They don't ask because they care. They ask because they know your haters and your competition. They will sell whatever they know about you in order to curry favour from those who they believe can take them to the next level.
They prey on your gullibility and offer you a false sense of comfort. They squeeze you to interpret gifts as a sign of love and service as a sign of respect. They flatter you with hyperbolic expressions of your abilities and qualities, so that you can conveniently lose your guard around them. They force relationships but do not build relationships. Your pain means nothing, because they own no stake in your welfare and no pleasure in your joy.
Anyone who will not caution you about your vices and your flaws, but would rather (and comfortably) discuss those vices and flaws just to show how well they know you and gain notoriety as one who can access you, is a snitch.
Through their observations of you or the words of your own mouth, they know your secrets and flaws. And because you feel secure around them (seeing them as allies), you allow yourself to lose your guard and be in your element, expecting that the season will pass quietly - but you have just given them something to use, for entertainment value or for your detractors to have an edge over you.
A snitch is a dangerous ally. They have no honour, and they have no regard for the oath of friends. Relate with them with the presence of mind, that you're like a city without walls, whenever they're around you.
They are quick to say they got your back. They hold themselves out as trustworthy, but you'd be a fool to believe them.
Never give your secrets or your flaws to people who have no honour; who lose nothing by your downfall; who pretend they want to make things right by telling on you, but will do nothing about correcting their own flaws. They are greedy, and you're just an item on the shelf, going, going, gone...