Anyone else feel like they can't trust anyone anymore?

Trust is so fucking overrated. For me there’s nothing called profound trust.That’s idiotic.I developed from an early age a healthy cynicism and that helped me to create clear goals and boundaries.I learned that:

  • Most people are going to look out for their own interests and if someone else gets hurt,myself included, well that's too bad.Deep down everyone is selfish. We have to be,it's part of our defense and survival instinct. Some hide it better than others,but rest assured that at times when someone does anything for/to/with yme they have their own unspoken motives for doing so.

  • A harsh truth is that other people don't give a shit about my problems.My family, friends, and Significant Other may. But to my coworker, man on the street, hair dresser, bartender, they simply don't care.

So I’d trust a mechanic with my car and a doctor with my liver. My best friend isn’t a mechanic because he’s my best friend. Besides when my friend fucks up in something crucial, what will you do? What will he do? He’ll say sorry.Yeah thanks, you can take your apologies and shove them up your arse after I’m done widening your shitty hole.

-So want me to trust you with my money? Be a decent investment banker.

-Want me to trust you with my body? Be a decent physician.

-Want me to trust you with a university project? Don’t be a fucking imbecile who knows nada about which semester we’re in.

You can trust a person by a job, and even that is a risk taking, but trusting someone with everything or your life is just blain and blatant absurdity.

Trust is illogical. Trusting someone based on emotions and sentiment rather than logic is one of the main reasons most people get fucked daily.

Trust entails a degree of sentiment that, thankfully,I don’t possess.

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