People like that pharmacist are why the Nuremberg Code was created. No one likes a person like this, not the Devil, nor God.
So basically everyone is a sycophant, sometimes you have to be for survival reasons.
The most significant spiritual, or whatever you want to call it, hurdle in ones life is to admit that they were wrong. Most people, especially females, are willing to watch the world burn instead of admit they were wrong.
Pride is son-of-a-bitch killer and is why repentance is so commonly mentioned by those who fear God because admitting you've done wrong is a crucial part of the first few steps you take into becoming a wise person.
I have personal experience with my single Mother where no matter what she was always right. 30+ years of dealing with her so it is statistically impossible for someone to never be wrong so she should be a Gorillionaire by now. In order to self-preserve, my Mother would go as far as to tell me things like "my life would have been better without you" over simple disagreements or she would give me the silent treatment for weeks until I caved in because children need Love from their parents. You can literally spontaneously die as a baby or child because of emotional abuse/neglect.
Yeah from my research I gathered that she is a Malignant Narcissist which is a regular narcissist but like 4 other serious mental illnesses attached. Although I've seen my mother cry and she wasn't nearly as awful towards my stepbrother. I think my mother was so heavily traumatized by my biological father that every time she looks at me she sees him and is lashing out at him and not me. She never let me forget who my father was and how he hurt her and whenever I was happy or in a good mood she would take it, stomp on it, and kill. My mom actually kinda looks like Killary, you know those 3 whites psychotic stare she has? She would give me that all the time and I was actually a pretty good Son aside from calling her an idiot like once or twice.
Your experience sounds pretty similar to mine by the energy I'm picking up from the way you speak about your dad. I don't hold anything against all women I'm quite indifferent, I love women, what the hell is the point of anything without them. Don't even get me started on what I have to say about most men… that doesn't mean though in general what I said was wrong, I've experienced more tom-foolery from women in my life than I have from men, and I'm saying that as someone with both a monster of a biological father AND mother. The Bible even says that finding a virtuous women is like finding a rare Gem. Those kind of women end up being Queens, literally the only type of women worth simping over.
Godless people do the strangest things. Although if I put myself in my moms position I sometimes wonder if I would've become the same monster. Imagine carrying the demon-seed of some shithead then having to raise the Son of a monster that ruined your life. Like should I even feel grateful for not being aborted, smothered or thrown out of a window? My whole life I just felt like a burden and cursed but now that I'm over the unworthiness part of it I feel like I had a hell of a ride and because I survived I actually became very wise and thoughtful person.
A childish trouble-maker who had a few too many alcohols.
Yeah honestly people say forget the past or whatever but that's like saying forget the color pink. I'm empowered by my past, I can harness and conjure up all the hatred and darkness on the fly and channel it into some magnificent acts that aren't really worth mentioning tbh but like I'm the Hulk basically. You just gotta know how to turn it off… deep breathes.