Trusting

I was thinking about trust today for no particular reason, other than a friend and I were talking about it a couple of weeks ago. As I was thinking about this, I came across this quote:

"Trust is like a vase.. once it’s broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.”

For me, the quote really hit home as I thought about friendships and relationships where trust had been broken. When we break trust, we can put it back together, but the cracks still show from the damage that has been done. Sometimes there’s even a big piece missing… that big gaping hole where someone’s entire trust had been and is now gone.

Over time you notice the cracks less, the big gaping hole has been patched over, and you may learn to fully trust that person again. Sometimes that trust has been so devastatingly broken that the vase can’t be replaced. And the person whose trust has been broken? They become more guarded, afraid of someone else causing further damage to an already fragile vase.

Hopefully over time, one can begin to allow healing to begin and bring them to a place where they’re no longer fragile and can weather the crazy storm called trust.

We’re human and sometimes people do things to us that can almost shatter us to pieces. But we pick up those pieces, we put ourselves together, and if we’re lucky, we put ourselves back out there again. Isn’t the human experience great? I don’t know how to quite end this, as we’ve all had various experiences. But I did want to share my musing on the topic. Thanks for reading.