#40 Monday Morning Coffee Post

We live in a world where trust is becoming an increasing rarity. It use to be that you’d always have to apply common sense when dealing with the world and with people. Now we are taught to directly distrust others before they have proven themselves trustworthy. We look suspiciously over our shoulders as being followed or targeted. With look suspiciously at the neighbors doors and windows to try and foretell whether they are living by the same rulebook as us or pose a danger. Or maybe we aren't living by the rulebook and maybe they will rat us out. We don't trust our workplace cause we know they are in it for the money and at our expense if it comes down to it. We don't trust our colleagues cause they might cut a head of us, if they had the chance. We frantically worry to try and make sure that we see the next attack coming.

It is tiring just to write this and I know how much more tiring it is to live it. Who do you trust? I mean really trust! Your family? which friend or friends if you're lucky? Anyone else? Do you barricade yourself? Maybe even in each others company, making allies against the rest of the world? Or do you breathe and nervously step out there trying not to shut down, not to let this fear based culture get the best of you?