How to Trust Everyone All the Time

Calvin Niles
3 min readOct 26, 2021

We all have to trust others in our lives. Yet, there are strong chances that other people may break that trust. So it would be right to say that we have the natural ability to trust until we experience the breaking of this trust when someone does not fulfil our expectations. Then we feel hurt or betrayed. Consequently, we try to protect ourselves and trust is one of the things that tend to break, however, that need not be the case.

As a social species, our life depends on trust amongst each other. It is one of the critical features of our codependency and survival. However, we don’t have to look far to see that trust is a pearl of innate wisdom. For example, whenever we want to drink a glass of water we don’t question if we’ll get to the kitchen because we trust that our bodies will take us there. Or perhaps you can answer this: do you doubt your next breath? But the time you have read this, you would have already breathed that breath. This type of trustful behaviour is a kind of unconscious trust which carries us through our life as we do basic things.

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Trusting Animals vs Trusting Humans

Let’s look at this from another perspective.

We can not expect our cats or dogs to speak in our language because we cannot expect any words from them. It would be ridiculous to expect that they will…

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