Sunday, March 6, 2016

How People Lose Trust

Trust is firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. To gain trust is really easy. A person could just show a little emotion toward the other person to gain his or her trust. Trust is like the foundation of any type of a relationship. Anyone can gain trust of another person quite easily. Any person can also lose trust really easily too. The thing about losing trust is that you cannot really gain in all back.
When people trust each other, they build a connection toward one another. Trust moves individuals toward each other. It helps people build a relationship with each other. You can lose that relationship with one another by being selfish. Being selfish is when a person is lacking consideration for others. You can be selfish when you are concerned about your own pleasure. When you are selfish, no one wants to hangout with you because all you are going to be focused on is yourself. People want other people to have interest in each other's considerations. That's how trust is made. It also shows a lack of respect. When someone loses that connection, they cannot build that back again.
People can also lose another person's trust by telling lies toward one another. Telling the truth is very hard sometimes. But it is a lot better than lying. Lying can do a whole lot of damage in a relationship between two people. When you tell the truth, it relieves it from you, so you do not have to keep whatever is bother you in. When you lie, and someone finds out that you lied, that person might not want to trust your word ever again. This is like that little story of the boy who cried wolf. The boy wanted attention so he told people that a wolf was chasing his sheep. The people would come and help him but he would just laugh. Then one day, a wolf really came and was chasing his sheep. He cried wolf but no one wanted to come and help him. Once someone loses trust in your word. That person will never believe in your word again and he or she will think you are lying all the time.
Another easy way to lose someone's trust is to give out that person's secret. Sharing secrets with other people is a great way to see that the other person trusts you. They tell you that secret because they think that you will not tell another soul. But once you do tell that person's secret, that person will not tell you another secret ever again. He or she will not trust you with anything anymore. You will lose their trust and probably your friendship too.
Losing someone's trust is really easy to do. But it is also very hard to gain back. You cannot just automatically enter someone's life again. You have to rebuild the trust you once lost. If you want a good relationship with people, you need trust. Trust is the backbone of any type of relationship. Without it, you will be alone. No one likes to be alone.

2 comments:

  1. Trust really is a tricky thing. When you said that you can gain, but also lose it quickly really stood out to me. I think we often times give our secrets and trust to people who don’t deserve it, and with hold it from people who do. It’s a scary thing, for me at least, to put trust into people because of how many times my trust and faith in that person has been broken. But, I think it is also important to remember that not everybody is untrustworthy. Like you said, relationships are based off of trust, so it is imperative we all remember to be trustworthy people to those around us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I think trust is something really important that I don’t think about as much as I should.

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  2. This is great because trust is such an everyday part of our lives. Trust is often taken for granted and abused and bringing the importance of trust to the forefront of people's minds is awesome of you to do. Humans have a tendency to take a lot of things for granted, and the value of trust in a relationship is one of the things that is most commonly taken for granted. That's awesome that your concept of trust is so strong.

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