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[tyear_kheldaran]

Several days ago, Aimee made a statement about trust in her journal, which got me thinking about "trust".  Quoting from the post referenced:
... After my last relationship, my trust level was ZERO. He's helping me slowly but surely build it back up...but it's still hard for me.

He's an answered prayer.

At the time I couldn't get my thoughts

Comments

[bluflutterby]

i miss these kinds of philosophizing.

[tyear_kheldaran]

Yeah, we don't stay up talking 'til 2:00am anymore, do we?  That's probably the only thing I really miss about college.

[bluflutterby]

*hugs* me, too.

[btcactress]

How do you sleep at night!!??

...True, trust is a risk (a huge one) to take at times...but without trust, relationships crumble. That's why you have to build and re-build so often. Is it worth the trouble? Maybe not. But then again, faith is trust. Faith is believing in something you can't see. God is trust. So maybe we're supposed to go through building and re-building until the day we don't have to do it anymore, because we know. (I.E. Walking down the streets of heaven with Jesus and finally having proof that he "exists.")

[tyear_kheldaran]

How do I sleep at night?  I get tired... :D

Seriously, though, I don't rationalize my way through all this philosophy every time I make a decision to trust someone... I'd never get anything done if I did that.  I trust the same way (I imagine) most people do - partly based on how much trust I have developed in that person and partly based on gut feeling.

Also, I am certainly not trying to imply that trust is bad (rather to the contrary!) or impossible in any way, but actually that it's much more beautiful a thing than it appears on the surface.  Think how much more meaningful and precious someone's trust is to you because he makes himself vulnerable to you.  Also, in addition to increasing the beauty, the vulnerability of trust makes it possible to have relationships, which is essentially what you said above.