Trust

I looked at this topic for a couple of days, trying to decide how I was going to go about writing this and convey my thoughts accurately. Trust could mean so many different things, there is no one way to write about it. Trust could lead to honesty or dishonesty. It could lead to the respect of an individual. It could lead to who would you rely on in a life or death situation. Trust is the foundation of many different things.

Trust stems from your personal beliefs about a person or a resource. Just because everyone else trusts someone does not mean that you should, or that you have to. You need to be able to make your own decisions about who you trust in your lifetime. The way trust goes hand and hand with honesty is, if someone is dishonest with you, you are not going to trust them after that. Or if someone goes behind your back and tells someone else something you told them in confidence, you're not going to trust that person anymore. I have recently been very overwhelmed with school and work, all of it is piling up on me at once. I was put up for a very important award in the military that could either fast forward my career or keep me on the same track it is going. With this comes the burden of having to figure out who you can actually trust in the workforce. I was blindsided by someone who was supposed to help me progress and succeed, now in the future I will no go to that person for future opportunities. Personally, I believe that once trust is broken, it is extremely hard to gain that trust back. I don't think I am a person to hold grudges, but I never trust the say way I did before something happened. Trust is the foundation for good relationships.