My Definition Of Trust In My Family

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The highest form of relationship two individuals can obtain is one that is completely transparent, one where each person has 100 percent trust in the other. This means each individual believes in the reliability, strength, and skills of one another. However, trust is often taken for granted by many. Although specifically defined, everyone has his/her upbringing about how trust works. Ever since I was a kid, I have been instructed that through the persistence of honesty and reliability, I can earn trust. This leads to my definition of trust: something needing full, mutual effort to earn. Committing to this full, mutual effort is difficult, but once a person achieves it, the feeling of trust is “amazing”. Above all people, I trust my family. At times, our relationship is frustrating because I feel that we give different amounts of effort. This …show more content…

Trust ties relationships together and omits second-guessing. Lacking trust for someone or losing that someone’s trust leads to doubt of reliability. Since I lost my parents’ trust, I have explicitly worked to get it back, by telling my parents how my day went with detail, to always telling them the truth. Telling parents the truth about bad events that happened before they find out is a great way to rebuild trust. This shows that I am open with them and am not trying to hide the truth. Another way trust is proven to be easy to lose is when the government lies to its people. For example, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, a lie about Vietnamese troops sinking US boats, was used as false propaganda in order to persuade the deployment of American troops. This lie resulted in numerous American casualties. The citizens of the U.S did not find out this was a lie until years later. Unraveling the truth of this incident led to the mistrust in the American government. Ever since the truth was discovered, American people have not trusted their government as they did

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