Things that make you go...WTF?

A recent news report about someone who committed an unthinkable crime has gotten me thinking about the dual nature that exists in people. Usually when you hear about people plotting murder, living "secret" lives, having seedy affairs, etc, etc...it's a plot of a crazy movie on Lifetime. But here lately, I keep hearing about things like this affecting people I know. It just makes me wonder...WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?!? More importantly...who can you REALLY trust?

For the most part, we all have secrets in our lives. There are thoughts, actions, urges, feelings, etc, etc...that we don't share with anyone else. In a society where we are urged to look/seem/act perfect, there's very little room for mistakes/weaknesses/differences to ruin that perfect image that we struggle to achieve/maintain. But at what point does that secret side take hold of a person...consume a person...and drag them over to the dark side? At what point does it seem normal or okay to pound your fist into someone's flesh? plot to hurt someone? engage in a relationship with someone who is not your spouse? hand over money for a substance that you know is slowly killing you? At what point does that secret take over one's life so much that the risk of repercussions doesn't even seem like reality? I guess the real question is...How long after you fool everyone else do you finally end up fooling yourself?

We can judge the pastor of the 1200 member church who recently was "outted" for his homosexual affair...we can judge the man across the street with the huge house and the nice car that pummels his wife on a nightly basis...and we can judge the lady who makes secret phone calls to the man who she is having an emotional affair with... we can say we'd never be like them...that we'd never do those things...that it's beyond us...that we are above that... but are we? when seemingly good people do bad things...it shakes you to the core and just makes you wonder why and how people can lead such double lives...