Love all, trust a few

There comes a point in everyones life, where you have to put your trust in someone.

Whether you easily trust or are a bit more wary no one goes through life without trusting someone.

Even if that someone is only themselves. 

Sometimes one only one left to trust is your shadow, who else has never left your side? No matter the opposing force. Anyone who can do that, deserves my trust. Trust is so important to me, I view it as if your not someone that can be trusted by anyone you are not putting enough into anything. Trust is one of the hardest things to gain and the easiest to lose. An image of a hard working person to me is not one with a nail and hammer, it is one who works to be trusted. 

The way I see it is every relationship you ever have, Trust, or the lack there of, is involved. You either trust someone or you don't. There are no gray areas that I can see. Trust is not something that should be taken lightly, when I trust someone the last thing I want is to be proven wrong. I don't trust a lot of people, but when I first meet someone I give them the benefit of the doubt. I hope for the best in them and view a person in that light until they prove me wrong. At that point it is very hard to climb back up that ladder. 

Trust though, is different. Its not something I hand out willy nilly. Its something thats gained, its something thats earned through time and true actions. It can take years to build trust and seconds to destroy it. I think of it as a house of cards. A BIG house of cards. I don't know if you've ever tried to make one of those things, but dang... It takes a willing person with a lot patience to carefully stack those cards higher and higher, then with the slightest breeze or slip of the hand the entire thing comes crashing down. Then once its gone its much harder to pick up and do again. The bit of confidence you had before is now gone. Back to my image of a hard working person, that person takes pride in his houses of cards, he doesn't step aside when prospects of untrustworthy acts come along to destroy his work. He fights to defend them. 

Trust is that important. It should be that important, if it isn't, is the rest of life?