Katie Russell posted an interesting question on her blog asking whether there could be such a thing as a trustworthy individual. In her post, she alluded to the belief that no one is trustworthy and the only person you can trust in is yourself. While it is true that there are those who are not worthy of anyone's trust, I happen to believe that trustworthy people do exist. For instance everyday, millions of children trust in their parents to keep them safe and have their basic needs met. If every parent was untrustworthy, all the children would be on their own taking care of themselves, which is not the case. Obviously, there are certain people who are not trustworthy at all and take advance of others for their own personal gains. Yet if everyone was only looking out for themselves, this world would not exist.
There is saying that goes "Trust is hard to gain but easily lost". For many, it only takes one small instance to completely lose trust in another. Sometimes however, the breaking of the trust bond is necessary to eventually strengthen the relationship. The most well known example of this is when an individual gets help for someone who is thinking about committing suicide, even though that someone asks the individualal not to tell anyone. Even though the individual broke a certain someone's trust, in the long run it will actually increase the individual's trustworthiness because the individual had the certain someone's best interest in mind.
Q: Are love and trust one in the same?
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