When no right answer was forthcoming and the pupils had exhausted all clues, “the most important thing to have as an adult is trust, because if you don’t have trust you don’t have anything” came the reply to a hushed classroom.
This lesson in life has been with me since then, it taunts me when I regress and barks at me when I transgress.
Trust is an all encompassing word. This simple word that is sometimes used frivolously by some ,shapes our life and how we live it. Without trust, there is no credibility and no reliability.
A doctor will lose his patients and a banker will lose his clients if trust is missing.
To be trustworthy means to have the salient qualities of honesty and integrity, they are inseparable and the bedrock of how we must shape our lives around.
Trust holds a great significance to the man on the street and more so to the people in positions of power.Without trust, everything breaks down. Nobody will believe what is written in the papers, rumours become truth, fact becomes fiction and it fosters the blossoming of a generation of skeptics , hard to please and difficult to convince- sound familiar?
Criminals to even boy scouts follow their own code of conduct of which trust forms the crux of their credo.Imagine that.Then we ask ourselves ,do politicians and those in positions of power have a similar code of conduct too? If so, then why are there so many disturbing events of late?
What politicians don’t understand is that when one crucial issue is swept under the rug, and covered up,this inevitably starts the fall off the precipice.And it becomes ever harder to get back up on to the straight and narrow road .Try convincing a whole population of skeptics!
Rumours,facts,incidents or issues when they crop up should be investigated without fear or favour.The people have to be kept in the loop, no stone must be kept unturned.Why? because of the all important word, TRUST. A very simple precept but surprisingly difficult for some.
Trust, so difficult to attain yet so easy to lose. A precious lesson in life learnt in a chalk filled classroom on a hot steamy afternoon and one I will carry for the rest of my life.
I just wish more people would.
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Village Boy I strongly believe that we can only trust others if we trust ourselves first.
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