Friends are an important thing. You need to be able to talk to them about your problems and trust them to keep your secrets. You need to be able to call them whenever and trust them to pick up. You need to be able to trust them. Completely. As you’ve probably noticed, I think trust is the most important characteristic of a friend. Trust isn’t something easy. You can’t just talk to someone for a day and completely trust them. People’s secrets aren’t something you can just take. They have to be earned in many ways. I like to think of trust like a piece of glass. You have it, but it shatters easily. The easiest mistake to make is to trust the wrong person and have your secrets all over the place.
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Hi Mara,
I love your analogy of trust being like glass. Not only can you shatter it easily, it’s also really hard to put it back together exactly as it was before it broke. I hope you have people in your life who you feel you can trust.