Humans with saccharine minds: Sweet tongues and poisonous hearts

Kiran Krishnan
3 min readSep 30, 2021

What can I say about their drama?

A man with fake face smiling and real face grining
A sweet smile and a wicked heart

Have you ever encountered someone who approaches you only when they need you and disappear after their purpose is met? Have you met someone who praises you at your face but bad mouths you at your back? Have you met someone who says how someone was so good with them so that you also behave the same with them by putting peer pressure on you? The above three questions are some of the important characteristics of a person with saccharine (unpleasantly over-polite) mind and their care is only about themselves and their intension is only to use you to meet their ulterior motives. What can we do about them?

Some of the strategies to handle them include

  1. Being careful when someone comes closer or goes farther
  2. Buy time to investigate more
  3. Be courageous to say no

Lets see how to apply these strategies in reality.

  1. Being careful when someone comes closer or goes farther

It can be noted that some people will be so silent in our lives only to notice them pop up suddenly from no where to start enquiring and praising us. Very shortly their true intensions will be released in the form of a favor. May be the last time they contacted you was also only for a favor and after their favor was fulfilled they disappeared like gas in thin air.

So, last time they went farther after a favor is fulfilled and this time they come closer to fulfill another favor. In the midst of these, one is clueless of how to handle this situation and may yield to the favor thereby losing time or effort or money in the process. In these type of situation it is better to be aware of the nature of certain type of individuals. It is required to be careful when someone suddenly approaches and suddenly leaves.

2. Buy time to investigate more

It can be found that people with saccharine minds use time as a weapon to satisfy their requirements. Most of the time they say that help is urgently required or money is required immediately or play victim that someone has duped them or ask help for a genuine purpose covering up their bad habits which may have caused their situation.

Kiran Krishnan

Life enthusiast; Seeker; Renaissance man; Life long student ; Self taught scientist.