Trusting No One

I should have realized this much earlier in my life, but I'm finally realizing now that you can trust no one. You can trust people with secrets and such, especially if they're you're best of friends, but really you cannot predict someone's actions. You can't predict what a person's going to do in every single situation. Sometimes, the person you trust doesn't have control, and the trust may be broken not by him or her, but by the person that is acting upon him or her. Oddly, whenever I start thinking about this kind of thing I start to think about The Lord of the Rings. For example, no one can be trusted with the ring, not even the one with the most integrity. Frodo was this character in the book and movie, but the ring still overcame him several times in the story. Also, Smeagle wouldn't have told where Frodo lived unless the evil forces tortured him to say it. When I think of real life, I think of marriage and relationships. They all start off pretty great, and as time goes by, the two people start to trust each other more and more. After a year or two it would seem as if the trust is nearly unbreakable (well it could take more time for it to be unbreakable, I guess). However, sometimes the trust breaks as a result of a stupid mistake, of which the actions are unforgivable.

At my school recently, there was this couple who had been dating for a year and a half. They are seniors now, and to me, they seemed like the strongest couple in our school. They were honest with each other. They both deeply cared for each other, and they had gone through adversity from some peers and from some parents. It seemed as if they would grow old together. However, just recently, the guy decided to start liking this freshman girl. He wanted her to start a relationship with him, even though she didn't want to. He expected her to take on the baggage that he carried. He ended his year and half relationship for her he had said. Think of the pressure that girl had on her. This guy had just finished a relationship that she had never even fathomed. She couldn't just hop on the horse like he expected to.

And for the other girl, the senior, she was heart-broken. This guy that she had trusted for a year and a half began to want to be with this other girl, who by the way he had only known for about a week. Now this girl (the senior) is perhaps one of the coolest girls ever, and I don't know why this guy (who is also pretty cool) would want to jeopardize his relationship with her for this girl he barely even knew. The girl (the sr.) had trusted him, yet she couldn't predict what he would do.

To trust someone is a very hard thing to do, because it means that you are predicting their actions in a way. You are trusting them to make right decisions, and since right is a very person-to-person opinion, right must be what you want. Trust is a great thing to have, but sometimes you cannot rely on trust alone to decide what people are going to do.