Do you ever not know who is trustworthy and then you think, “Am I even trustworthy?” I just don’t know who to believe anymore, and I don’t know who is a “good” or trustworthy person.
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I know. I don’t know who to trust either. I have trust issues… knowing that people can be really cunning and sneaky and manipulative :/
I’d make an honest assumption of no one from my lifetime experience. I feel I’d have someone helping me commit suicide if there was one good person out there, instead I suffer day after day..
do you count yourself in that? I know I do… I was a really honest, very moral and honorable guy… then shit happened, I did evil shit, was NOT a good person… then a close friend died… he taught me the most important lesson… all the money in the world is not worth your honor…. and now I try to be that honest, moral, honorable guy… but I know I could go back to being the bastard if I want or need to, it’s always a temptation.
Asking… are people trustworthy? I would say absolutely, as long as you accept they will only act in their own self interest… you can trust that they will do whatever is best for them.
I actually do what’s best for others. It’s why no one loves me.
I gave away all my money last month to help an older gentleman I met. He was hitchhiking and a good person too.
I have no reason to lie or hurt others. To me there is nothing worth anything in this world but love and honesty.
Quote from David Foster Wallace.
“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? I’d there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
Trust is tricky because is it done in the blind faith that you are able to believe in that individual that is not yourself. And who is to say that you yourself are a trustworthy person? To what limit does it take for the trust to break? It’ll vary for every individual. The bond of the relationship will often dictate the degree of trust you will have for the other. But what is “good” also depends on what it is that you want. It’ll be subjective. There are genuinely kind people, so I’d like to believe. I am not one of them but I try to be for the people I care for. I hate to let them down and it saddens me when they let me down too, but we try. Trying is all that we can do and that’s the only role we can fulfill. To try to do our best. After that, there is nothing more to be done or said.
I think maybe it’s easier to look at it on the level of actions, rather than people. Some actions are more moral than others. Most people do both good and bad things. I imagine that even some of history’s greatest butchers have done good things – it’s just that they pale in comparison with the bad things they did.
Viewing things this way tends to be helpful when I visit Twitter, where the name-calling is never far off.
For me, it’s more who I can trust as an authority on how to defeat my demons/get my life in order. I keep on looking for answers, but it feels increasingly futile. Everyone seems to have their own recipe for success, and often, you have to plow through a book to discover it. I have read so much trying to work out how to find my way out of this maze, but I almost feel as lost as when I started.