Trust

 I am starting to worry about how I will teach my son about trust. I have a bad reputation for trusting the wrong people. I have always tried to see the good in people, but the world keeps changing, and it's safe to say none of it is positive. Skyler and I were watching movies earlier, and I realized how safe the world used to be around the 90s and early 2000s. There used to be a time when if a stranger came up to you because you looked lost, and they offered to help you, there was a small chance they might be a psycho killer. These days there's a murder almost every day and the victim lost their life simply because they gave their trust to a stranger. There was a mom in Walmart a few years ago with her small children, and a man prayed on her because they looked lost and were struggling. He offered to go get the family some food at a McDonald’s across the street and to take one of the young girls with him. After they had been gone for hours, the mom called the police. They ended up finding the little girl stabbed to death behind a church.

This man probably appeared in the form of an angel to this woman. She was hungry, trying to provide for her family, and he used that to only cause her more pain and heartache. How am I supposed to explain to my son that it's better to trust no one? You even friends and family doing things like kidnapping their nieces and nephews just to murder them and drive around for months with their dead bodies in their trunks. How am I supposed to tell my son, he can barely trust family when I prefer to be away from mine simply because I don't trust them. I decided to teach my son that trust is earned. Do I want him to be mean to every new person at his school simply because he doesn't know them? Of course not! I just have no better way of explaining to my son the world that we live in. How can I tell my son that if he ever is approached by a cop to immediately put his hands up? This was just a painful reminder that the world is such a dark place. There is nowhere anybody can go where there is complete peace and harmony. You go to Africa; you must worry about people coming into your house when you are sleeping and cutting off your arm because you are albino. You go to Columbia; people are dying every day because of drugs. 

 

I think we should compare our system to places like Canada. I believe we could really learn from that country based on not only the statistics showing that people are happier in general, but the fact that the state isn’t based on capitalism like United States is. The actor Jim Carey mentioned during an interview how the USA puts things like the monetary gain from oil over the healthcare system of its citizens. The sad thing is that nobody will come forward about this issue. People are too worried about what they must deal with than trying to make changes for future generations.