Shattered trust: the people you trust are the ones that hurt you.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog. Trusting people is a risk we humans cannot stop taking; even after countless disappointments, we still find a way to trust people to get things done, even if we don't trust them like we did with those that disappointed us. What matters is that we trust to get a thing done, no matter how small. One thing I have come to realize is that the people we trust the most are the ones that hurt us the most. Trusting people give them access to you, and some people use this access they have gained to their own advantage, not minding how it is going to be for you or how their actions are going to affect you.

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People who do not have your trust cannot disappoint you; disappointment can only come from those we trust. Those whom you don't trust have no way of disappointing you; there has to be trust for disappointment to happen, which is why when it does happen, it cuts deep and sometimes leaves a scar. There are people who, after experiencing a certain disappointment, were never the same after that, and there are people who are scared to fall in love because of previous experiences with those they once loved and trusted.

For a person to disappoint you, it means you gave them your trust and hoped they would reciprocate and deliver, only for them to dash your hopes and leave you completely disappointed. Disappointment is something we have to suffer and deal with from time to time, and when that time comes to be disappointed, it is inevitable; sometimes it comes from the people you least expected would do such a thing. Over the years we all must have been disappointed countless times by the people we thought would do better, only for them to do the complete opposite of what we hoped they'd do.

Growing up, I loved playing football so much, and I never believed a day would come where I would go days without playing and be fine. When I gained admission into college, I decided to buy two football boots: one I will be using while in school and one I will leave at home, and the one at home I will use whenever I come home for holidays, and I will not have to be traveling and moving around with boots in my bag. It was indeed a good idea, as it lessened stress and loads that I will be traveling around with whenever I want to go home and from home back to school.

As usual, hard times came knocking, and I was in dire need of money. It was urgent that if I didn't pay for a textbook, I would not be allowed to submit an assignment, and before then, I had teammates calling to ask if I wanted to sell the football boots I left at home, and I kept declining, but since things have turned out the way they are, I decided to sell off the boots and use the money to pay for the textbook. I called a friend of mine and told him to go to my house and collect the boots from my mom and sell them, take a percentage, and send me the rest, which he agreed to do without any argument.

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My mom called to tell me she had given him the boot, and a week went by. I did not hear from him, and I had to find a way to pay for the textbook. After about two weeks, he called to tell me the boots were stolen, and he did not know how to tell me that's why he blacked out. Since I had sorted out the bill, I allowed it, but to my greatest surprise, when I came home for the holidays, I saw this friend of mine using the boots he said were stolen to play football. My trust was broken, and I was disappointed with him for what he did.

_{This is my entry for the #inleomonthly #Aprilinleo day 24 prompt.}