I put my trust in no one. I learned the hard way....got burned too many times. When it came down to it, I found out the only one I can trust is me.

And I trust Lleena, she is that kind of friend.

DEFINE "trust"...


I Trust God...my mum...and my dog.

I put my trust in no one. I learned the hard way....got burned too many times. When it came down to it, I found out the only one I can trust is me.
[This message was edited Wed Aug 18 2:52:27 2004 by NovaAngel]

I think the word 'trust' is pretty much overused, misunderstood and abused to the point that it is almost worthless these days. Trust has become this random thing; sometimes you do, sometimes you don't, with no method applied to it.

My definition of it is, trust means you are entrusting someone with a secret, a favour, a wish, a job, etc. In that sense, I am giving up a little piece of myself, a part of the control I have over my life, because when I trust someone, I know they're also in a position to hurt me. In this respect, I think to myself, why should I trust anyone at all?!

I don't trust people on first meeting them. Only over time, in relation to how much they respect me, their actions, their loyalty, does that trust build up in me for them. I don't think you can truly claim someone as a friend on a first meeting. They are indifferent to who and who you are, so they'll just as easily pat you on the back as they would spit on your grave.

As for me, my most trusted friends are the ones who have always been there through good and bad times with me. I've learnt to build that trust in them. That's a lot of trust but not enough that I'll get myself involved in anything that would put either myself or them in a dangerous situation.

Given the way human nature is, people are usually selfish and greedy, so, more likely than not, someone you don't know will fuck you over, so you don't have a single reason in the world to entrust them with anything. Therefore, they get zero trust.

However, not trusting someone doesn't necessarily mean I disrespect them. I won't treat someone like crap just because I have no interest in them. Although I feel it's happened to me. I'm never rude and impolite to people who aren't those things to me.

The flipside is you can also respect someone without trusting them. Say like Prince for example, I respect him but you can't always trust him if we believe what we read! Is it because I wouldn't have trusted him? Of course; I admire his music and his career, but I don't know who he is as a person outside of what I read about him.There exists respect, but no trust.

I don't trust anyone "no matter what", not even myself. People can & will fail you. There's a few I trust w/ a few things & I mostly trust myself, but nothing is absolute...