TRUST WORTHY

Some people are good at keeping Secrets. Others say and feel their lives are an Open Book. This group will readily tell you that they have Nothing To Hide. Often this is true. 

Honest people are usually also Trustworthy, that is they are worthy of our trust in them to say, and do, the right and decent thing. Sounds like someone most of us would like to know and be around.

The Oxford Dictionary also says that someone Trustworthy is able to be relied upon as honest, truthful and reliable.

Roget’s Thesaurus meanwhile adds that trustworthy is believable, credible, tenable, worthy of faith, reliable, unimpeachable, fiduciary and trusty.

At an extreme, the people who think of themselves as having Nothing to Hide and their lives as an Open Book, might also be a little too unbending around those of us slightly more fallible and human. 

Personally I would rather someone be a bit inflexible rather than use the truth as an option and rely upon their ability to talk their way out of any situation when they are caught in a lie. 

I need to say that, I am happy personally to find that I know many more people who are trust-worthy that is, worthy of trust than those who are not. 

I was trying to find the best quotes I could to describe what Trustworthy and Untrustworthy are and what the characteristics of each do to Friendship and Relationships. Some people said that ‘Broken Trust is like a broken Mirror, even if you try and repair it you will always see the cracks’.

Another person said: ‘When you completely Trust another person, you will end up with one of two outcomes: You will have a Friend for Life or a Lesson for Life. Both are valuable’.

Someone else felt that Trust possibly was more important than Love. You can Love someone you do not trust but, that Love may not be reciprocated in kind to you. When you Trust someone however, with your Love, you give them the power to break your Heart, but also are Trusting that they never will do it.

The one I liked best, so far said: You should put your Trust out there and it will eventually ‘Boomerang’ back to you. Like other giving, you give because you can and often get back far more than you ever expected because you do not look for something in return. I like this very much mainly because I don’t believe in walking around mistrusting everyone. To me it is no basis for a relationship. Also, I wouldn’t want someone around who I could not trust, in either my Business or Personal Life.

Life however introduces us personally (and through the experiences we hear about from our Family and Friends) to the entire range of people of the world. Trustworthy and Reliable and Honest people have their corollary in Liars, Cheats, Philanders and other Dishonest people who we live among and sometimes must recover from knowing.

The person who seeks to benefit from dishonesty may calculate the odds of getting caught as low and estimate their chances of ‘getting away with’ whatever they want to do. The same type may also draw upon their own experiences and the words they used successfully in the past to get away with their misdeeds.

I am happy to still feel optimistic and confident in being able to believe and trust those I know and am surrounded by because I feel that they, at least, make an effort to live as decent, trustworthy human beings.

Realistically though, like everyone else, Life sometimes brings us and/or those we meet and know who are indifferent to, or seek personal gain for themselves by less that honest, truthful or trustworthy means. I suppose they find some way to justify and live with themselves, though why and how, I really don’t care to know.