Prevent Yourself From An Excess Of Distrust

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”

William E. Gladstone

Any policeman who is interested in frauds can tell you that it is not enough for a cheat, to found a person that blindly trusts the extraneous ones.

The trick is the consent from the victim, which, in reality, thinks indeed about being able to double his/her own money in one night, to get something in exchange for nothing, and so on.

I am not saying that you need to trust everybody, as children usually do, but rather, that you need to recover just a little of that childish trust that can defend you from the true cheats.

If you think that anyone is looking for his/her own profit and everybody in the world is bloody-minded, you have polluted your instinctive ability to sniff the true scoundrel in the moment in which he/she is in front of you.

The ability to trust himself/herself and also the other ones is in reality a matter of development in his/her own attitude.

If you think that the world is a rotten place and that the most greater part of the people they try to rub you, you will not only have more possibilities to be rubbed by the true cheats, but you will already cheated by yourself because you will be excluded by the contact with all the honest and loyal people around you.

If you allow your childish trust to surface instead and to be able to express a positive feeling, aware of to be able to face any situation, will be really your positive attitude to allow to see things clearly.