Trust - to have confidence in someone, to believe in something, to rely on something or somebody

Trust is the basis of many relationships between humans, i believe.

Strong friendships exist due to trust for the other party. At times of trouble, we believe that our friends will lend a helping hand to us and not leave us in the lurch or "watch the fire from the opposite bay". Bonds are usually strengthened when friends work together to tide over a crisis. Only during times of difficulty or distress, one would be able to discern between who the true friends are. True friends are those who are always ready to lend their support when you are in need ( you see this fact in many chain mails ), who lend a shoulder for you to cry on when you are depressed, who encourages you when you are demotivated and always available to lend a listening ear to all your troubles whom you are able to trust your secrets with. I personally feel that it is not quite possible to keep all your secrets within your heart without telling anyone else. Firstly, it's because somehow you'll blurt it out. Secondly, sharing it with someone else may alleviate all the tensions the secret is causing within you. I trust my friends with certain things which i believe they'll keep it for me, be it promises or secrets. Of course, i must be able to reciprocate. Reciprocation should occur in a friendship. It should come naturally and not because you demand something else from your friend.
Consider this situation. A man is made to pay thousands of dollars because his friend just broke his bond and left the country. Hmmz...do you accuse the man of being stupid for signing a bond because the rest of his friends have done so? Or do you accuse the bond-breaker of exploiting the trust his friend has in him? When do you know you can trust a person and believe that the person would not do anything to hurt you?

Strong marriages arise due to trust. It's important that husbands and wives trust each other in order to sustain a marriage. This is especially so when the husbands are out most of the time and the wives are unaware of the husbands' actions outside. Well, if the wife doesn't trust the husband, conflicts will inevitably arise regardless of the issue (don't always associate such situations with mistresses). Due to the husband's long working hours, the wife may either suspect that he has a mistress outside, or feel that his family is of smaller importance as compared to his job. Firstly, 9-5 working hours are not as common anymore. 9-7 seems more common. in the second situation, he's working hard to support his family and hopes that his family can live in luxury and not because his family is of 2nd priority.
Imagine another situation. This husband has a demure innocent wife who trusts him totally. He exploits her trust and goes out with other women.

Trust is so easily exploited by the unscrupulous. I'm not saying that i can't trust my friends around me currently. Rather, i'm just exploring certain possibilities when i step out into society in the future. When do you trust someone wholeheartedly? Who can you trust wholeheartedly?

Trust exists between organizations and between the organization and its members. Today, i see the extent of which certain members are standing out to lend their support to the very organization that inspired them.

Should we trust the newspapers or the organization? During the planning and fund raising for the trip to India, i've seen for myself how the accounts are handled. A receipt is even issued for a 10 dollar fund raised. How can i doubt the managing of funds? Perhaps we should just believe in what we feel should be and must be the truth. Only through this belief can our bond with any organization that we belong to. Unless the truth is out, we should not doubt.

(the above are all my opinions, not facts.)

To digress for a while, this has been put up as requested:
Bun says:
1.18 am, i go supper

After the meeting, i wanted to ask whether it's possible to subsidise part of the cost of our trips because most of us are interested in helping the disadvantaged overseas but do not have the financial ability to do so. I didn't ask in the end but i sort of reflected about it. The trips should not be subsidised because the money came from the donations of people. all these donations are meant to be directed to the less fortunate which those people, who donated, intended to help and not meant to send us overseas such that we can help people. By subsidising our trips, it would create a situation similar to those fund raising shows on tv. A phonecall costs one 5.50. out of which, 0.5 goes to the phone operator. maybe 3-4 goes to the salaries of the involved as well as the equipment utilised. Only 1 -2 are actually directed to helping the less fortunate. This should not occur. Those 5 bucks should go to the disadvantaged directly. Hence, i would rather send my donations directly to the charity rather than having part of that 5 bucks going into the pockets of other people. This should be the course all charities should take. All donations must go to the less fortunate. Although the cost of the trip has deterred certain people like me from going on such trips again, i hope that, when i'm able to support myself financially, i'll be able to travel to such places to help people again.

Maybe the haze was the main reason to my sore throat? After eating 2 slices of mooncakes 2 days ago, my sore throat showed no signs of deterioration. maybe it was the mango that triggered that sore throat of mine. whatever the reason, i'm getting plenty of phlegm in my throat. Irritating~

Sore throat not only affects one's health, it hinders one from doing anything. It is irritating, yet one has to bear with it. I feel uncomfortable!! Maybe chocolates won't work this time. After MAF, and after a day of inhaling smoke, i went home to consume mooncakes and chempedak. On sunday, i thought it healed, but i didn't expect it to worsen today. I even ate mangoes on sunday. Looks like i'm digging my own grave...

MAF is over!! and i got a slight sore throat after that...
Factors:
Haze, singing, all the smoke from sparklers (mx wth u din bring...), chempedak, mooncake
I think i'm just torturing myself when i can avoid all these. Well, didn't want to regret not going MAF because i don't even know whether i'll return to HC next year for MAF. Frankly speaking, i think i will, unless i'm going overseas (which i most probably wouldn't). The decorations this year weren't as nice...the star was much nicer but i didn't have a camera handphone then to take photos. Sad...
Yimin went back to HC... her class is pro lar...5 generations gathered together at the central plaza singing the same songs together. Hahaz....she's the only 02 senior around while the rest are from the rest of the years... but isn't it cool to have 5 generations together? We had only 3 generations, out of which only 1 is from the 06 batch and the 03 batch wasn't with us... hmmmmz.... bleahhhz...oh... but i saw a 02s75 senior...i guess they found it awkward to join us? i don't know...
When everyone went home, i stayed at the class bench alone, watching people play their sparklers. When i looked up into the sky, no stars could be seen other than the orange round moon. My only source of solace i guess...Maybe one day, i shall go to the beach alone and wait for shooting stars there...
Yimin drove me home!! lol... my mum called me when i was just about to get on her pa's car. My mum's first reaction to "ma, yimin's driving me home" was "hUH?? who?? yimin?????" I guess she was equally shocked that yimin drove there alone! Lol...
Maybe next year it'll be my turn? hmmz... if i sacrifice 3 weeks and chiong the entire driving course and get my licence (if i'm that pro), then i might be able to drive to HC nex year!! but i think my father wouldn't allow me to though... i'm not that trustworthy? lol...whatever... the roads are much nicer to drive at that time rather than early in the morning. My pa met countless road bullies while driving me to school every morning. I'm quite worried about him though...having to put up with those road bullies.

Some things are best left unsaid, or they'll simply lose their value. It's only when "it" is unknown, then it could be appreciated genuinely. Perhaps "it" will remain unappreciated, but nonetheless, i've no regrets. "It" may be small, insignificant and only for a moment, "it" could be big, significant and lasts a lifetime.