A Fool's Game

It's strange how it takes people a while to realize they were played upon. Even I fall upon that curse.

Close out your current thoughts, clear your head. Now, place yourself on a stage as an average townsmen. A joker comes and offers a card trick. With a flick of the wrist and slight a hand, the card that you picked was removed from your pants pocket. You were played as the fool, not the fool that came to you.

Now, let's take a real moment in life. Perhaps, a friendship. You have that one friend that you enjoy, and it seems he enjoys you around as well. Then, he starts to ask things of you, which you unhesitatingly do, because you two are friends. But, you have nothing in return for everything you've done for him. Then, you stop talking to the person, and then you start to think under the surface.

The whole time, he was using you to get things... almost to show off.
The whole time, he earned your trust, and used it against you... because he knew it would work.

Though you were played for the fool, you aren't the fool. The player was the fool, you were the victim.