To trust feels good, in particular when it’s validated and reinforced: we all enjoy those moments when we share with those we love and trust how much our friendship and connection means.
But do some people get left out, or left behind?
Use your sixty seconds today to consider who, within your world or on the edges of it, may live without trust.
Because trust is a social currency, it carries a cost, it comes at a cost, so we cannot trust endlessly. No one individual can entirely enrich a landscape of trust, alone, but we should nonetheless be mindful of whether everyone has access to networks of trust.
Does someone who lives alone, who is elderly, who is ill, have the same opportunity? Does someone who is new, who is bullied, or who works alone?
If someone is homeless do they have the opportunity for trust?
If someone only speaks your language as a second language, or does not share a language with you at all, do they have access to trust?
This week i’m drawing upon the Landscape of Trust research: you can download the free eBook of that work here, based on ‘72 questions about trust’.
Day #162