Our lives are full of trust, our world revolves around trust.
Should we really be so trusting?
This morning
Making my breakfast, I trusted that the bread was not poisoned, the jam not full of drugs.
Picking up my laptop bag, I trusted that the strap would not break.
I started my car, trusting that nobody had planted a bomb under it over night.
Driving out on to the road, I trusted that other drivers would obey the road rules.
I stopped for petrol, trusting that it was petrol I was putting in my car and not water.
Finally I drove over a bridge to get to work; I trusted it would not collapse under me.
I was trusting people that I didn’t know.
Items I didn’t make.
I believed that most people in society are good and wish to do me no harm.
Yet here at work, with people I know, I can’t trust them
Passwords and codes
Locks on doors
Policies and procedures
Locked down rights
Logging and filtering
How said is this.
I trust those I don’t know.
Yet don’t trust those I do know.
I was walking down the road today; I trusted that nobody would stab me.
At 2am on a Saturday morning I might not be so trusting, why?
We trust the banks to look after our money, should we?
Our trust is placed in faceless companies, ran by faceless men.
We don’t know them and they don’t know us but we still trust them.
In most cases we don’t have any choice.
Our society tells us to trust those we don’t know but not to trust those closest to us.
I don’t trust people I should, how can I? Why should I?
I was always a trusting person, I grew up at a time when this is what you did.
Stories of kids being abducted, murders and crime seemed so far away.
Now I am older I know the world is not as nice as it seems, when seen through a child’s eyes.
Our world is full of people you want to harm you.
Our world is a dangerous place.
Now I am not so trusting, the world has done this to me.
If you can find somebody to trust, keep them close no matter what.
But if they break your trust, be sure to make them go.
If you don’t have trust, you have nothing.