Thanks for taking your time to comment here. Not only do I agree with you in that it is vital to understand the rules of the game and acknowledge they are not obeyed or followed by some people, but I also think such lessons are best when they’re given from as personal point of view as you gave it.

I have had a number of similar experiences myself, and had personally saved a friend of mine from a similarly evil man. There wasn’t anything particularly strange or unusual about him but one thing – he attacked everyone with an absolute certainty of himself being right. He made this girl cry in just a few minutes and no one in the room could do anything about him. And then I accidentally entered the room, recognized the situation and promptly took (more like dragged) her away. The man needed only a few words from me to feel much smaller and definitely wrong, and so he retired soon and we never saw him again.

Hope to see you on my pages again, Daniel! Thanks for sharing your experience!

Thank you for including “A Lesson from the Devil” in this edition of The Personal Development Carnival. It seems to me a big piece of developing as an individual is recognizing there are those who don’t play by any kind of ethics or rules, be honest with ourselves about it, and to learn how to effectively watch for and avoid them. That wasn’t the “moral” I wrote fo the story, but like the ingredients of Prego, “it’s in there.”

I think for some my article may seem like it’s from way out in left field, but there’s stuff out in left field we can learn, and that’s probably why I’m here.

All the best,

Daniel