Day 148

'Snake', Pen on Paper

Trust is very important part of any relationship and one that is easily broken or lost, yet is subtlety bent on numerous occasions by all those involved. We all have secrets we'd rather each other never find out, we all blur the truth to save some ones feelings or spare our own and more often than not we tread a fine line that could see a friendship deteriorate should our deceptions be found out. The thing that is most beguiling though is that whilst we know that our actions can be devastating we still take advantage of people's trust whether it's due to jealousy, temptation or for whatever reason we still proceed to risk everything. We often know that what we have done is inconsiderate or just plain wrong too as we become racked with guilt, so much so that the desire to make an omission is much too overwhelming. The result being that we often share our deviances with someone else, the issue then being that should the cat be let out of the bag there is now more than one person entangled in the web of deceit that we have woven making the damage more widespread as the possibility is that more than one friendship can be ruined. What this then generates is a dynamic where whether you are the righteous, the deceiver or the confidant it is difficult to know how to proceed. Do you own up and weather the storm, do you tattle and break someone else's trust and do you have it within yourself to forgive someone for their deception. The notion of trust then is one that is vague as sometimes it is necessary to keep things hidden for the sake of someone else. It is complicated in that whilst honouring one person's trust you can be breaking another's and it is something that is all to easily abused and usually is.