"I promise."
I've heard this one wayyyy too many times on Heroes. There seems to be at least one mention of it in every single episode.
So many promises, but how many are actually kept? I'm sure all of you have made empty promises before, as have I.
When you make a promise to someone, there's a mutual exchange of trust involved. I don't know how anyone else may have felt during this exchange, but every time I make a promise I feel a subtle sense of solemnity and humility.
To be able to receive the honour and faith in the form of someone's trust is almost always humbling. Unless of course, you don't mean your promise, even though the trust that's handed over to you is sincere and firm. It has to work both ways, as does everything else in the known world. Sigh, it's the duality of life again. I should be a Taoist. The taijitu is starting to make sense.
Trust is a gift as much as it is a responsibility. There is hardly a sin greater than the betrayal of trust...Think about it. Cheating (as in dishonesty, or adultery, or whatever broad spectrum it entails), murder, blasphemy...it's all betrayal of trust. To your teachers and friends. Your parents. Your spouse/partner. The people who could never have believed you would turn to killing, to those who believed you would never speak ill of your religion.
To be honest, before today, I'd never really thought about how everything in life could be linked to trust.
Is there any greater possible bestowment a person could place in another? Love, perhaps? Oh, that's trust. Trust that you won't betray that love and will cherish it with all your heart. What else? Forgiveness? Hey, that's trust too. The person trusts that you won't repeat your mistakes, right?
Hm. Trust.
It's...fragile. Trust is hard to give, but it's even harder to keep. People give you the one thing that's hardest to part with; a piece of their heart, some sliver of the blueprint of their soul, and expect you to guard it with whatever conscience, integrity and honour you have within yourself. Imagine the immense weight of this endeavour.
“Loving honesty builds one up, bitter honesty makes one strong, whereas secrets, even those kept with good intent, are death to the fragile flower of TRUST.”
What happens if you had betrayed someone's trust?
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
And what happens when trust gets inconspicuously linked to hope? (I particularly like this one)
“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be- and when they're not, we cry.”
And for those who've found that they cannot trust anyone anymore for fear of being hurt...
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough"
And this is from myself...
Trust might be a fallacy
Trust can be a vulnerability
And yet, trust can be your strength, passion and life.
Decide quickly, or your life will pass you by.
But first, you have to trust yourself.
P.S. hey atiqz, this is a whole lot better than just 'hm.', huh?
I've heard this one wayyyy too many times on Heroes. There seems to be at least one mention of it in every single episode.
So many promises, but how many are actually kept? I'm sure all of you have made empty promises before, as have I.
When you make a promise to someone, there's a mutual exchange of trust involved. I don't know how anyone else may have felt during this exchange, but every time I make a promise I feel a subtle sense of solemnity and humility.
To be able to receive the honour and faith in the form of someone's trust is almost always humbling. Unless of course, you don't mean your promise, even though the trust that's handed over to you is sincere and firm. It has to work both ways, as does everything else in the known world. Sigh, it's the duality of life again. I should be a Taoist. The taijitu is starting to make sense.
Trust is a gift as much as it is a responsibility. There is hardly a sin greater than the betrayal of trust...Think about it. Cheating (as in dishonesty, or adultery, or whatever broad spectrum it entails), murder, blasphemy...it's all betrayal of trust. To your teachers and friends. Your parents. Your spouse/partner. The people who could never have believed you would turn to killing, to those who believed you would never speak ill of your religion.
To be honest, before today, I'd never really thought about how everything in life could be linked to trust.
Is there any greater possible bestowment a person could place in another? Love, perhaps? Oh, that's trust. Trust that you won't betray that love and will cherish it with all your heart. What else? Forgiveness? Hey, that's trust too. The person trusts that you won't repeat your mistakes, right?
Hm. Trust.
It's...fragile. Trust is hard to give, but it's even harder to keep. People give you the one thing that's hardest to part with; a piece of their heart, some sliver of the blueprint of their soul, and expect you to guard it with whatever conscience, integrity and honour you have within yourself. Imagine the immense weight of this endeavour.
“Loving honesty builds one up, bitter honesty makes one strong, whereas secrets, even those kept with good intent, are death to the fragile flower of TRUST.”
What happens if you had betrayed someone's trust?
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
And what happens when trust gets inconspicuously linked to hope? (I particularly like this one)
“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be- and when they're not, we cry.”
And for those who've found that they cannot trust anyone anymore for fear of being hurt...
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough"
And this is from myself...
Trust might be a fallacy
Trust can be a vulnerability
And yet, trust can be your strength, passion and life.
Decide quickly, or your life will pass you by.
But first, you have to trust yourself.
P.S. hey atiqz, this is a whole lot better than just 'hm.', huh?
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