Monday, October 1, 2012
Week 7 - Post 1
As Abigail and Cahn describe in the book, trust is “the belief that another is benevolent or honest toward the trusting individual, and that the other persons caring transcends any direct benefits the other receives as a result of caring.” They define distrust as, “lack of confidence in another person, not relying on that person, and/or we are suspicious or wary of him or her.” I luckily haven’t had anything happen directly to myself to lose trust in a person, which is probably because I never trust a person when I first meet them. I base my trust or distrust in a person on weather my close friends or family trusts that person or not. If a family member or friend distrusts a person, that doesn’t necessarily mean I won’t like that person, but I will always be wary of them. This is a big part of why I have never lost my trust in someone.
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California Girl,
ReplyDeleteI think it is outstanding that you have never experienced losing trust in someone in such a way where you had to consider either cutting them out of your life or rebuilding trust. I completely relate to you with the family and friend sense as well be it that I also take their advice with another person and if they spot a red flag I will also become cautious of them. In general I think I am a cautious person in addition because after spending years in a competitive environment I do not trust people initially and until I truly get to know them will I allow them my full trust. However there have been times where I have been like a friendly yellow lab and have been too trusting and because of that I hold people accountable to a point where I only share myself with my closest friends because as chatty as I can be I have found that the less you say the better.