Trust or Bust?

Do we as a race and as a culture, really know who or what to put our trust in anymore? I mean, sure, we have natural instincts, as we talked about at length in our Survival series,. But point is, often it seems our instincts tend to get us in more trouble than they get us out of sometimes, right? I mean, after our relationship chat last week with our guest, Peace Supreme, who was amazing, by the way, be sure to follow him, he's doing big things. But after that, I was honestly stuck in this space where I was examining the intersection between what we perceive as normal behavior in relationships and the risks we're willing to take to find our safe space, to find a person we can trust and confide in. That kind of catch 22, and even more so, that imbalance between what we dish out and what we expect in return. I was quickly confronted with the fact that what we see play out on the Daily is so far from normal. Men don't trust women. Women don't trust men. The people don't trust the government. The government damn sure don't trust the people. You have conspiracy theories left and right, which I'm not bashing by any means. Most of them hold merit. But you have fake news. Half of what you see on the Internet is complete bullshit. So where does that leave us? How do we weed through the endless falsities? What can we trust? Speaking for myself, that leaves me skeptical as all hell in my opinion. That's why so many of us go looking for answers. If you feel something is being withheld from you, you want to know what it is, right? Ladies? If our instincts tell us there's something in that man's phone, what are we going to do? We going to go searching, guys. If that job not paying you enough, what we doing? We on the job site searching for a new one on our lunch break. If your man or woman ain't acting right, what do you do? You on Instagram posting thirst traps or on Tinder swiping with your freaky asses.

We trust that if the answers aren't here, that they're elsewhere. And we trust our ability to find them, for the most part. But what happens when years of trauma and mistreatment have corroded our ability to trust in people and ourselves? What if so many instances of, say, the government lying to us or your partner lying to you, family gaslighting you, making you doubt yourself? What happens when your compass is thrown off, when your bullshit detector is busted? So I took a poll earlier in the week via social media that asked, are you a person who goes into situations trusting and withdraws it if need be, or a person whose trust has to be earned? Out the gate? 62% of y'all said your trust has to be earned, and that means 62% of y'all are bullshit. No, to me, it just means y'all have been hurt or betrayed badly in the past to make you feel that way. Because in reality, the willingness to trust others is built into our DNA. Working together has always been key to the survival of our species. Having faith in one another is in the best interest of both the individual and the collective, especially in times of risk or uncertainty. So if there were ever a time in our history, this talk needs desperately to be had. It's now.