Strangers and loved ones

Could you trust a stranger?
Would you trust a stranger?

Trust: Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.

Psychologists and sociologists would refer to trust as an open and positive relationship between people.

Could you open yourself up to someone whom you barely know? Would you even think of doing such a thing?

How do you decide who you can trust? Looks, behavior, voice, character or history.

Is it necessarily easier to trust someone close to you in comparison to a total stranger? Or is it the other way around?

Why should a person trust anyone else at all? Why should I believe a single word anyone else says?

To open oneself up and leave one's belief and heart in the hands of another, is a great risk indeed. Then again, will you really be opening yourself up and risking yourself by trusting someone else?

Trust: Belief in others. It depends on YOUR outlook of the other. It is something that grows. Built up by repeated positive experiences with the other. A bridge.

So should you start off simply trusting a stranger? Or maybe a healthy dose of distrust is in order.

But isn't it possible to trust without getting hurt by it? Physically or emotionally, trusting yourself to another appears to be a really big issue indeed. Why is this so?

Is this world so distrustful? Is there none in this world we can trust? Or is it just us who are distrustful?

Is it just us?