Lost trust in humanity

Have you ever come to a point in your life when you felt that you can no longer trust even a single person apart from your family? Trust me, I have been there.

Endless number of bitter experiences have taught me to never trust anyone blindly. It might sound quite pessimistic and erroneous to some of you reading this blog post, but everything I have been through has taught me to be extra-cautious around people. I am just going to convey a few instances in brief.

Some people spoil the name of their entire community. I met a family a year ago. We were going to finalize a deal with them. All the documentations and discussions were complete. But in the process of closing the deal, they told us lot of lies and cheated us. Almost after 6 months of dialogue with them, we found out that they had used our confidential information and misguided our clients and spoilt our business reputation. Such people have no morale.

Some people spoil their connections. I once met a lady, who used to work in our institute. She talked sweetly and was quite knowledgeable. We treated her and her family like our own. After almost a year of knowing each-other, she left the institute. Later we found out that she had shifted all her students from our institute and opened her own venture. A second instance occurred just a few months back when we met a music teacher and appointed him for our institute. In the meantime, we had a small get-together where we introduced him to some of our friends to promote our newly launched music classes. A month back we found out that one of our friends and the music teacher, who happened to have met at our get-together, launched their own music album. The sad part is not that they made a music album, but that the music teacher was not anymore willing to teach our students.

Some people ruin the name of their profession. I have met several teachers in our institute, who have broken our trust and taken lot of our students and started their own private classes. Unfortunately, I also met a teacher who stole items of her colleagues and her personal money too. Sometimes we do not realize that our one mistake can destroy all our hard work and self-respect.

Not just people we work and socialize with, but even outsiders trying to help us break our trust at times. Very few people are honest these days. I have myself witnessed many well-educated youths trying to sell products and services to naive consumers, by deceiving them. So many property dealers cheat buyers into investing into loss-making assets. A few years back, we hired an architect to design one of our offices. Turned out he was bankrupt and disappeared with the money we had paid him.

What would you call people whom you trust dearly and later find out that they were the cause of fights and misunderstandings at your workplace? Such people make me angry!

What would you call yourself if you blindly trusted a person, worked for the person for free with the false hope that it could strengthen your connections and offer you with endless opportunities in the future? In this scenario, many people would think that you were a fool, but in my opinion some people do not deserve your trust.

How would you feel if you helped a friend or shared all your feelings with somebody and that person openly discloses everything to others? I would feel betrayed!

I can go on and on, but the main idea of writing is to advise everyone to be cautious before trusting anyone. Most people are not what they seem. It takes lot of time to build trust, but just a second to break it. So, when it comes to keeping people close to you, choose wisely. And if somebody trusts you, do not break their trust! When someone shares a piece of their heart with you, it might not be a big deal for you, but that person might have taken a whole lot of courage to trust you. Moreover, consider yourself lucky that you are special for somebody.

Thank you for reading!