Private Self and Public Image

For survival, many human animals maintain a respectable public image which is diametrically different from their private self. Most succeed in their role acting. Most have become accomplished thespians. Some, in moments of weakness, allowed themselves carried away by the passions of their ego and anger, dropped their masks and revealed who they are. That was when a tsunami of recognition washed over the onlookers and spectators.

You were one of such onlookers and spectators. You were washed and carried away by the tsunami but you weren't drowned. You emerged bruised but much wiser and hopefully more taciturn. With your age and the "intelligence" you possess, I should have not allowed myself to be swept by the tsunami, bur you did. That meant only one thing: you were naive and trusting. In other words, you should have cultivated the ability to discern and read the animals better.