Friday, November 16, 2007

Trust

The five lettered word 'TRUST' though looks so simple, has got great meaning and strength with it. Its an emotion where we allow others to know our vulnerabilities believing they won't take advantage. Its difficult to imagine life without trust. Right from the moment we set our foot on this earth to the moment we sleep in our graves we find trust showing its prominence. Trusting our mother, father, brother and sister is a different thing; we share blood relation with them. Its only a friend who enters our life as a stranger, becomes an acquaintance and wins our trust.


"Friendship is not friendship without trust, without it I walk alone."
- James P. Michels Jr.


Friendship is not something which happens in a second; we don't take a person for granted as a friend when we meet him or her for the first time. It's something like Stop and Wait data communication method. In this Stop n Wait method, we send a message and wait for the acknowledgment before sending the next message. So do we share some information with that person, who is just an acquaintance, and righteous response is what we expect as acknowledgment. Trust builds up in this process and the person takes promotion from acquaintance to friend to best friend.