Trust is safe keeping.

Like closing your eyes and letting a friend grab you by the arm, leading you through a dark windy pathway without doubt in your mind. Trust does not worry or fray. Trust is important for any successful relationship and is easy going. Trust is driving slow on a back road, windows down, music blasting. Trust is not controlling or obsessive. 

Having trust between yourself and someone else may not come easily, but should come naturally when a good connection is present. When someone

never lies to you

is on your side no matter what

and keeps their promises.

Keep yours. Trust them. Roll down all four windows and crank the stereo’s knob to the right. Allow yourself to trust, to love, to feel angry or sad, and to be jealous.

Trust has no age

no sex

no disability

no race.

Trust is safe.

On the daily, one allows themselves to trust without even realizing.

You trust your teacher to help you learn and to succeed and to shape your future.

You trust your coaches to train and strengthen you, to put you one step closer to becoming the athlete you always dreamed of being.

You trust your parents to always support you, and to unconditionally love you.

You trust your siblings to listen to you rant when mom or dad are being unreasonable. 

You trust your best friend with keeping your crush a secret, even though they giggle a little every time that person walks by you guys, or even comes within 500 feet of you. 

And one day when you are a parent, you will have to learn how to trust your kids to be safe and smart with just about every decision they have to make. These days it’s so easy to slip up and stumble onto the wrong path.

To me, showing your trust for someone can be as simple as letting someone keep their thumbprint on your phone because you know they would never go behind their back, or as big as listing someone as your ICE contact to make life or death decisions for you in case that you are able to do so.

When trust is broken, a never ending spiral of negative emotions floods a relationship. 

Anger.

Betrayal.

Frustration.

Sadness.

Trust being broken is like taking all of the pieces of the puzzle you spent months putting together and scrambling them all up into no organized order, randomly sprawling them across the table. Not having trust with someone is equivalent to feeling lost or to not know your position in a relationship. 

People change

grow 

make mistakes.

At the end of the day it’s up to you if you forgive someone who has broken your trust.

In life things never seem to go the way we want them to. When it’s broken down to the bits and pieces you need to have trust that the world has it’s plan for you. It may seem difficult, and you may feel angry, betrayed, frustrated and sad. Keep the ones you trust close. Roll up the windows for a little, figure yourself out, and don’t keep the ones around who don’t offer to take the wheel for you when you need it most. Trust is safe keeping.