Betrayal
I called up a very cheerful, good friend of mine and suddenly I saw a very different picture of her. She recently broke-up with her boyfriend of 5 years and she now feels horrible and cheated. And it got me thinking.
I asked myself isn’t betrayal first nature to a human being? Everyone betrays and everyone gets betrayed. One who betrays never thinks that he/she is betraying someone, may be as an afterthought when he/she goes through similiar circumstances.
There is no way one can be immune to it, even if one is the most powerful person on earth or even if one is son of God. I am talking of the two biggest betrayals in the history of mankind which most of us know. One was the betrayal of Jesus Christ, the son of God and the other was that of Julius Ceasar , probably the most powerful person humanity has ever known.
Betrayal is usually done by someone whom you trust (duh ???) very well and these two cases show it in all its gory colors.
Jesus christ was betrayed by Judas, one of his twelve discipiles. Of all the people in the world He chose twelve and one of them betrays Him.
Julius Ceasar was betrayed by his Senate and his adopted son, Brutus. Ceasar chose and adopted Brutus to be his successor and the senate was composed of members whom the Ceasar almost chose himself. These people brutally stabbed Julius Ceasar to death in his very own seat of power, the senate ,where he should be safest. The whole episode is so well recounted by Shakespeare in his famous book ‘Julius Ceasar’. And who can forget one of the most tragic statements in literary history when Julius Ceasar says “What, you too, brutus” when he is stabbed by his own son,Brutus.
