2025-08-27
What are we if we cannot trust one another?
In truth it is trust that makes the world go round.
We trust every time we buy something off the internet that it will be delivered as ordered in an acceptable time frame.
We trust that the merchant will not then bombard us everyday with pointless emails suggesting that we buy more from them (here's looking at you, A******).
We trust that if the shop says that xyz is "organic" then it is.
We trust our garage when we leave our personal motor with them for its service requirements, even though, or especially because, any mistake that they may make might cost us in more ways than simply monetary.
And - in at the deep end! - when we make or accept a proposal of marriage, we trust that we will be able to make everything work out somehow ... even though nobody comes with a guarantee slip to be filled out and posted back!
We know that not everybody is trustworthy, but we accommodate those who let us down as best we can in the circumstances, knowing that on occasion, we too will fail someone else's trust in us.
Miraculously or absurdly, some of us even continue to trust our politicians, so deeply is our need to trust others ingrained in our hearts.
Would we have it any other way?
