We are born trusting. This willingness to put ourselves in the hands of others comes naturally. Parents, with time, have the mission to teach their children that they cannot trust everyone, that there are risks to which it is better to be forewarned. This experience of the first childhoodThe experience, experienced from gestation, usually marks the patient for life.
Today there is much talk about the crisis of trust. People distrust their neighbors, politicians and institutions. Perhaps, the thinkers of suspicion have done with our society what is told of a father, who, to teach his son, asked him to get on a chair and let himself fall backwards, that he would support him. The lesson was as clear as it was hard; the father did not hold him and after the whack said to him: "for you to learn that no one can be trusted.".
In order to trust again, we have to unveil this deception, that it is not true that it is convenient for us to live in distrust. In order not to turn this situation into a vicious circle, we have to re-evaluate human interdependence.
To rebuild bonds is to trust again. It is necessary to educate our gaze so as not to see ulterior motives where there are none, to discover in others someone with whom we share the same path and to lower the barriers in order to show our need for others.
Trust is the oxygen of life in society. Today it is imperative to work to regenerate it. Along with committing ourselves to be trustworthy, we need to lower the barriers that make us distrustful. Perhaps it is time to discover that if we are that child who received that lesson of mistrust, it is possible to get up, rebuild ties, not perpetuate those situations and trust again.
Communication consultant.
