"Et tu, Brute?"
Mood:  blue
Topic: Realism
Have you ever experienced a scenario in which there can be no good outcome? Regardless of what happens, it's going to be bad?

Have you ever wondered exactly how Julius Caesar felt when his good friend Brute joined in on his execution? Legend has it that he stopped resisting and surrendered to his fate. I wonder if it was disbelief that froze him, with his mind unable to reconcile such a seemingly improbable scenario. I do know that betrayal has a paralyzing effect on a person. The enormity of the disbelief--the shock!--of seeing a friend or a loved one aid in your undoing is like being pilloried in a suit of lead. The mind is addled and all thoughts retreat to but a singular "You too?" And of course, the obligatory "why" or "how could you."