Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Trust

"If you are ever going to let other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too--even when you're in the dark" (61)


What does trust mean  to you? Think about your relationships and describe what makes them trusting.

5 comments:

  1. Trust
    I think to trust someone you need to get to know them. You need to listen to them. Morrie listens to Mitch all the time he was the first student that really liked Morrie. He liked his ways of teaching the class and how he didn’t give them a lot of work and sit there and take down notes. He tried to get them to teach themselves. Trust only starts with a little bit of respect. To get respect you need to respect others around you. Teachers only give as much as they get. Morrie and Mitch became good friends because of trust. People may change but old memories usually bring people back together. To have a relationship you have to trust someone. Trust does not happen without knowing enough about a person. If you do not trust a person you should not have a relationship with them. When people change they should tell their good friend about their whole life and what has all changed. In the story Mitch does not tell Morrie everything and how much he has changed and what he has been up to since he seen him last at graduation. But trust is a big thing in a person’s life so to get it you have to give it. In the book Mitch has a brother who is also dying but won’t let him be a part of his life. He stays separate from the family so they don’t feel bad for him or try to slow there life down to spend the last of his days with him. He does not trust them to know that they wouldn’t do that. He knows they would come and say that they love being here and that he is not slowing them down. He knows he will be so he does not talk to them at all. Morrie teaches Mitch that, “it’s not to late in life”. Mitch takes that advice and leaves him a message on his answering machine about the fact that, “he will respect his distance and he is his only brother and he loves him and does not want to lose him”. After that last quote Mitch and his brother stay in touch and talk all the time and catch each other up on new and exciting things in their life before Mitch loses him. -Minni Kitty-

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  2. In my opinion, trust is the most important thing in any relationship. Trust is a huge part of anyone's life. To me, trust means being able to lean on other people for anything. Trust makes it able for people to rely on others for things that they aren't able to do themselves. It helps people become closer, and bond with eachother. Everyone has someone that they trust with everything, whether it be their family or their friends, everyone has someone. In my personal life, I have people who I can completely rely on. The people who I lean on have earned my trust in different ways. In some ways, people have earned my trust by being there for me when I needed them the most. In other ways, they have earned it by keeping their promises. Being there for me when I need them is a big deal for me. It shows me that they're willing to help me out no matter what and that they'll always have my back. That is a big part of trust. Keeping promies is also a big part of trust. When people keep promies, it shows me that they're going to stand by me and respect my wishes of what they i ask them to do. I really appreciate that. Every relationship I have, there is trust in it. I believe that every relationship needs some sort of trust for people to be able to come close.

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  3. Trust to me means that you can rely on someone to be there for you when you need them the most. You should be able to confide to someone and be okay with it knowing that they won’t make fun of you or tell other people. Trusting someone means that you could put your life in their hands knowing they will make the right choices. For example in the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie gets one boy to stand behind a girl and then got her to fall back into his arms. This showed that she trusted the boy knowing that he would not let her fall and hit the ground. I think trust is one of the most important characteristics a person could have.
    There are many people in my life that I can trust. Each person that I can trust I trust them in different ways. Some people have earned my trust by being there for me in bad times but also in good times. When someone is there for me if it is a bad time then it means a lot knowing that they would go out of their way to make sure I’m okay. Some people have earned my trust by being able to keep my secrets that I don’t want anyone else to know. This shows that I could tell them anything and know that they would not go behind my back and tell other people, that means a lot. Trusting someone is not always an easy thing to do but everyone will find at least someone to trust in their lives. -Pinky18

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  4. To me trust, is being able to be yourself. If you trust someone you can say what you want to say and act how you want to act. You can tell them anything and know that they will keep it to themselves and maybe even give you some advice. To trust someone is to rely on them, you must be able to know that they aren’t going to judge you or go and tell someone your secrets. If you have had someone break trust before then you are going to find it even more difficult to trust someone. Some people need to earn other people trust; some people are just so trustworthy they trust you as soon as they meet you. I find trusting someone very difficult. People have to earn my trust. I do not like to just tell anyone my secrets; I need to feel that I can trust them no matter what. I know that I can always trust my family. I can tell them anything and I know they won’t judge me. I am a very secretive person. I do not like people knowing a lot about me unless I know a lot about them and then feel comfortable with them knowing things about me. I have quite a few friends and yet they still don’t know very much about me. I feel that nowadays you just can’t trust many people. To have a relationship you need to have some kind of trust. You may not be able to fully trust each other, but you need some trust. Without trust you can’t really consider it a relationship. In a relationship, whether it is your sister, your friend, or your partner, you need to have trust. You need to be able to trust each other. I feel that without trust, you don’t have much of a relationship. If you can’t trust someone then it’s not really a relationship at all. Everyone needs to feel that they can trust someone. Everyone needs to feel that they have someone there even when it feels like you don’t; this to me is trust. When it feels like you are all alone and you have no one in the world, you need to have that one person who you can lean on and trust with all your secrets, or even just someone to talk to.

    -Camdyn

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  5. I think trust means being able to rely on someone to keep a secret or to depend on them to do something for you. Also, that person should be able to be honest to you and help you make decisions that are right in your life. They should be able to listen to you and give you advice when you need it and you should be able to do the same for them. If you’re talking about friendship this means not backstabbing someone or telling someone’s secrets that they told you, unless it needs to be told because it concerns their well being. But otherwise if you can’t handle keeping a secret then you should learn how to because it will only help you earn the trust of others. Just like in the book you should be able to do the fall back test that Morrie had his students do and be able to have your friend or other trusting person catch you when you fall. I have a relationship with a friend and that friend is trusting. We can tell each other anything and we don’t judge each other on anything, no matter what we just told the other person, to me that is trust. Trust is something everyone can have or earn but it’s sometimes difficult to keep that person’s trust. I have had a few people who I have given up trust on for various reasons and I doubt they will ever get back the same trust again. So to me trust is a very important thing in life and everyone needs to try to speak the truth and try and listen to the truth even if it is harsh. You should also be able to give out your trust to people and they should be able to give their trust to you as well.
    -snowboardergurl

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