@AuntGwrote:
Yes, I'm generally trusting and want to take things at face value. For example, I don't know why people accuse others of lying on these boards - I mean it's just a shopping board. In real life, I'm sometimes skeptical of people, but I can't think of a time when anyone took advantage of me in a big way.
______________ @AuntG,
Your reply was very sweet, along with being more so cautious than non trusting. We live in a world that does not shelter every one from our day to day living situations, or live behind closed walls -safe within our boundaries.
As you, @AuntG, I can not think of a time when anyone took advantage of me, meaning causing me harm.
The fear that people have as non trusting is a reflection from today's society that has slowing been growing over a long period of time.
I can't believe, within my geography circle,... ( and of course that is only for me to say ) with some depth of almost total confidence.
How sad that must be, to show some degree of unhappiness, in not trusting anyone.
If we are speaking of having no control over someone else, i.e., drivers speeding, along with cell phones glue to their ear, dark blacken windows, scamming gurus trying to take advantage of me, then I know 'intuitively enough' to stay away.
Actually this question is to convoluted to have a perfect answer that would/ could meet everyone's thought or experiences, recently ....or from their past.
I did read through some of the posts- just not everyone's blunt spoken questionable answer almost in granite.
I have no way to know why that person or experience caused their answer.. Within the country/ world as a whole, that would be under another topic.
I know of the people -here- who tell non truths, maybe even dangerous, but this is only a board where anyone can express their venting, design their own lives to embellish, or have a family that was not there even one year ago.
Many are lonely for sure, as I view what I've read. I know when asking for prayer or good thought, those aer the ones that are reaching out, they trust that [WE] here on the forums will trust that very wish.
No, I would NOT let a stranger in my home whom I have never met ,or become a guest.
I am trusting if a plumber, anyone who has been hired to rendered services,
we have asked for, I have -still- that trusting inner feeling I can be safe and not become a victim.
Also, a lot depends on one's territory, and their surroundings.
To have an anxious state of mind that carries over to be afraid, would not be mine. People of different backgrounds, or many people coming into this country would be another topic. !?! I trust my bank, my minister, my neighbors, my co-workers, et cetra.
I, again do not exactly understand this question with a simple yes or no....without explaining some element of what possess that conclusion.
I would not trust going into a dark ally in a strange area alone, if that what the question pertains as answering?
Now, that / THERE would be some limitation to a not trusting as of me..(vs) being a trusting person.
In other words I do not not POSITION myself to be around Potential Dangerous Situations.
I have no control of the driver behind me, or the chef having evil thoughts putting poison in my in ordering from that restaurant's selected foods.
We DO trust MORE more than we think we do, along with the doctors or his/ her colleagues and many every day life events. There is no person that can not explain with a that >>simple no. Granted, the world has changed, and is certainly not the one I grew up in.
I'll give everyone ``that! I have traveled the entire world (except for Africa & the Middle East) and had pretty much trust of those protecting me, while there. A TRUSTING PERSON of what or to whom?
The entire country, world or everyone in general?
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