Trusting people is an interesting thing….you can’t really have close relationships, sexual or otherwise without the foundation of trust…and yet people throw it away as if it was dirty laundry. You have to wonder if maybe you have given the gift of trust away to easily, and haven’t held the proper interviews….a bunch of things happen when you realize that something that you thought was there really isn’t and maybe never was.
Do you go on trusting people and risking being hurt, and betrayed or keep everything tight up inside and never let anyone in?
What happens when you are no longer sure what friendship means? Or relationship? What happens when you don’t know how you should interact with people because you just don’t know what could happen in the future. I’m sure some people would argue that you need to treasure the time that you have and feel blessed that you had certain people in your life at all…but then what happens when that is suddenly taken from you, no warning, no goodbye, just gone….leaving the empty footsteps in the wake, just waiting to disappear with the wind. It’s easy to say that you just want to treasure the time that you have, until that time is gone, and then you have to realize that things are not always that simple. I think, more times than not, people find themselves wanting that friendship, or that relationship back, if for nothing else, so they can feel that trust they thought they shared with the person again. Even most friendships have an emotional connection that comes tumbling down when the people separate.
More than likely, the emptiness will fill again if you let it, but of course that leaves the opportunity open for history to repeat itself once again. So you have to make the decision, do you allow yourself the chance to get hurt and accept new friends into your life, or do you hold back and keep to yourself to never feel the betrayal of a friend shutting you out?
