Trust Analyzed

There is no order to my posts...  I don't know what to follow that comment with so let's move on.


So I was thinking... It was Saturday and typically I put the thinking on hold until Monday rolls around, but I decided to put in a little extra overtime last week.


I was walking through the shopping mall and a mom and daughter were fighting.  The daughter said something along the lines of "I'm not doing <x,y,and z>, you can trust me..." and it made me wonder about the meaning of the sentence she used.  Trust is one of those words that gets tossed around a lot... Does her mom typically not trust her?  Does the girl have any secrets that her mother would benefit knowing about?


Allow me to explain by way of analogies:
I like to think of trust as a pickle...
You're at a grocery store and you get a jar of dill pickles.  You TRUST that when you bite into that crispy piece of heaven it will surely taste like a dill pickle (not a sweet pickle, not a spicy pickle, just a dill pickle).  
There's only 100% - 99.862% = .138% of the time where you have the possibility of disappointment (a bad pickle).

Now imagine you pass the clearance rack at the grocery store (they have those, right?).  There's a black bag that says "mystery goodness" on it for only $0.50.  (Now remember, you just spend $4.00 on a jar of what you KNOW will be really good pickles).  So do you buy the mystery bag for $0.50, or do you spend a lot more (say you're on a college student budget, that's my latest experience) on what you trust will be exactly as you planned.

Don't go calling my life predictable or telling me "you should be spontaneous!" because most of you know that when you want a pickle... you WANT a pickle!  We'll come back to the pickle story.

Now head to the tattoo parlor (I'm not getting any art, just more examples).  The guy with the colorful pen... How can you TRUST that this stranger won't tattoo a unicorn on your fanny?  You can't! But you do... and you pay him a large sum of money for it.  Is that trust?



The other day, I babysat a beautiful baby girl for a neighbor.  When she (momma) was leaving, I asked "are we going to have a hard time when you leave?"  Needless to say there are many interpretations of that phrase, because I was asking about the BABY and whether or not she was going to break into a fit of sobs when her momma left (I still do that sometimes) (I'm kidding).  But her response was "Nope, I trust you!"


Now let me just set this scene.  This lady has the most perfect family.  She has 3 kids and all 3 of them are like the poster children for the brand that puts Gerber to shame... (everyone always references Gerber babies... but these kids are better).  This family gets along exceptionally well with my family and we do everything to ensure the other family is always happy or gets help when they need it.


When she said that, I knew she TRULY trusted me.  That sure is a good feeling.  Good... I meant to type great, but sometimes I get ahead of myself.


Evaluate what trust means to you... Who do you truly trust and who falls into the grey area?  Who is unfaltering and who is conditional? 



These analogies didn't have to make sense... and after this post, there's going to be no warning to the oddity of what gets posted.  It will just be assumed.  I can't apologize because I'm not sorry.. It's an open minded blernal.  Feel free to comment!


Just another day in the life... of a wandering mind.


Rebecca