Perspective is very important. It may come off as harsh, but my viewpoint is that almost everyone needs to take more responsibility for themselves in many, many, many ways.
To refer to your example: I'm a guy and when I'm out, drinking something (almost always non-alcoholic), I'm extremely conscious of my drink and staying aware so that nobody could "spike" it. That's basic self defense. Maybe I should be more trusting? Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where we felt safe? Perhaps a world where maybe we could even maybe trust our government?
You wrote, "my viewpoint is that almost everyone needs to take more responsibility for themselves in many, many, many ways."
Obviously, I agree. I think the lack of personal responsibility is why we are such a mess. This is literally my "reason to live," writing about this because I think it is the most important issue today.
I think we should always be focused on what is in our control, so I don't think we need to be so trusting. I think trust comes when people focus on what they can control. Until the other people do that, we shouldn't completely trust others.
Yes! Trust tends to be earned. Sometimes it's blindly given (and thus sometimes betrayed). Trust can be very different from entity to entity. I trusted my wife 100%. I don't trust my government at all (they have betrayed me for my entire lifetime).
Focus on what we can control, be self reliant, and rejoice when others turn out to be awesome and come through for you. I'm very grateful for my contractor friends who went far "above and beyond" to help me with my move and to get the projects done this summer, even though pretty much everything took longer than expected and went over budget.
Yes, trust and respect need to be earned. It's amazing that today entitled people think the default is that they should just initially be trusted, even by strangers. We live in a lower trust society than ever before, and yet people still want to force that.
It is always great to appreciate when people come through out of love. It's just not to be expected, or else we ourselves are feeling overly entitled.
Perspective is very important. It may come off as harsh, but my viewpoint is that almost everyone needs to take more responsibility for themselves in many, many, many ways.
To refer to your example: I'm a guy and when I'm out, drinking something (almost always non-alcoholic), I'm extremely conscious of my drink and staying aware so that nobody could "spike" it. That's basic self defense. Maybe I should be more trusting? Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where we felt safe? Perhaps a world where maybe we could even maybe trust our government?
You wrote, "my viewpoint is that almost everyone needs to take more responsibility for themselves in many, many, many ways."
Obviously, I agree. I think the lack of personal responsibility is why we are such a mess. This is literally my "reason to live," writing about this because I think it is the most important issue today.
I think we should always be focused on what is in our control, so I don't think we need to be so trusting. I think trust comes when people focus on what they can control. Until the other people do that, we shouldn't completely trust others.
Yes! Trust tends to be earned. Sometimes it's blindly given (and thus sometimes betrayed). Trust can be very different from entity to entity. I trusted my wife 100%. I don't trust my government at all (they have betrayed me for my entire lifetime).
Focus on what we can control, be self reliant, and rejoice when others turn out to be awesome and come through for you. I'm very grateful for my contractor friends who went far "above and beyond" to help me with my move and to get the projects done this summer, even though pretty much everything took longer than expected and went over budget.
Yes, trust and respect need to be earned. It's amazing that today entitled people think the default is that they should just initially be trusted, even by strangers. We live in a lower trust society than ever before, and yet people still want to force that.
It is always great to appreciate when people come through out of love. It's just not to be expected, or else we ourselves are feeling overly entitled.