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Trust is a funny thing you know, growing up all that fills your ears is “you can trust me”, “you can trust her”, “don’t trust him”, “I trust you”... and we go along without question as we are both held captive and set free by these unsettling phrases. In my life, I have been let down by a lack of trust and disappointed by the odds of reality not always being in my favour. But the truth is, the human race puts more trust into the things who don’t ask for our trust but rather, acts in our favour. The sky doesn’t ask for our trust as we watch the rain pour down, we naturally trust that the rain will eventually stop, simply because it has never given us a reason to think otherwise. The gigantic rock we call earth doesn’t beg for our trust as we live on it with the existing possibility of the rock splitting in half or catching on fire... we put our trust daily into these natural things and also manmade inanimate objects simply because the possibilities are out of sight, out of mind. We live our lives daily with a fifty percent chance of living and a fifty percent chance of dying with every decision you make. The moment you step into the driver’s seat of a vehicle, you’ve transferred all of your trust into this manmade machine with the expectation that every single system and mechanism that holds it all together will work properly and that you’ll be safe. You therefore trust this machine and the human creators behind it. It would be unheard of to say you don’t trust anyone at all... It is just a situation where actions speak louder than words. The next time you hear “you can trust me”, think of the past and what they physically do that truly makes you trust them.
