Trust

Trust is something interesting to me. There are three type of people when it comes to trust when first meeting someone new. One is the person who immediately trust you when they first meet you. Putting there faith into humanity that you are someone to trust and rely on. It's not that they are a fools to do so, it just means they are trying to see the best in you right off the hop. This could lead to problematic situations, like trusting the wrong people that could hurt you or someone you care about.Second one is the person who will kinda trusts you, but kinda don't as well. These are the people that will be on the fence thinking whether or not they can trust you. They will trust you to go do a task, but then double check that you did the task right. Not a bad thing it is probably the most practice way of trust. Third person is the trust no one type. Now this seems like it could be a really bad thing, but these are also normally people that have had there trust broken many times, so it is just better for them to assume the worst in you. They are more cautious for sure, but then when they find someone they can trust that person is of high caliber.
 So in my opinion none of these people are wrong in the way they trust new people. They all have there benefits to them and there draw backs. I personally think everyone has a level of trust they all give everyone when they first meet someone. I believe trust is can always be earned and built upon, but that normally takes years, months, days, or a few seconds; depending what your ideal of trust is. I believe hard work in earning trust. Unfortunately trust is also the most easiest thing to lose. You could of built this great deal of trust with someone and lose it all in a blink of an eye. Starting from scratch again. Now there is a big dilemma to trust them again or not at all. Is the person worth your time and effort to regain there trust? Was it an honest mistake? Can they learn from this?
   I think trust is interesting because at kung fu as instructors, they have to trust you that you will practice and respect others and not abuse what you are learning. Students have to trust the instructors that they are being lead down the correct path and not being lead astray. It is a relationship that is formed right off the bat that tends to not waver all the way until you make it to becoming an instructor and the process repeats itself.
  For me trust can be easily lost, but grown anew depending on the situation. I would say I am all three people. I meet some people I trust right away, most of those people are at kung fu. I am normally on the fence about people when it comes to work. I don't know if they are any good at there job, and will double check there work after there done, which in return will either build my trust in  them or diminish it. I don't trust any girl that shows interested in me. So many girls that I have met that showed romantic interest in me at all turned out to be scams. So when a girl is interested in me my alarms go up, because that never happens to me, and when it does it was just a scam. I am not even sure if I would know what it would be like if a woman did like me for real. To me it just seems like a fantasy that it would never happen. I have been burned way to many times to trust that a woman would actually be into me, but in the end I still have to put some trust out there every time, if I ever want to meet someone.
  I have lost trust, gain trust, and earned trust and given trust. Trust is so much more then what I wrote here today. If I went through everything I thought about trust it would be an even longer blog. I will end it here for now. Have a good day!!


Sifu Langner