| — | Alan Watts |
How DO you trust exactly? And what is it? Is it telling your secrets and knowing they will never be repeated? Is it loving and being promised there is no heartbreak? Is it the security of being told that a loved one will never leave your side? Is it as delicate as an infant not having the fear of falling because they trust not to be dropped? What about just a simple command, such as don’t eat a certain fruit from a certain tree, and being trusted not to do it? As much as we fantasize for the perfect relationship or what not… No one is 100% trustworthy. I’m not. I’ll admit it, but it’s not that I’m not loyal. The fact we are untrustworthy as humans, I think, is the fact it is accepted to be trusted with certain things. The fact that we don’t trust is because of the untrustworthy people… And the fact that people don’t trust is because of us. Yeah, I “trust” some people, don’t we all? But aren’t we all untrustworthy to an extent also? I am.