silent trust

While I write this blog I am little confused, as how do I define trust? I know its form of emotion, but aren’t emotions supposed to be a part of heart, while trust I strongly believe is a result of state of mind.

Any ways may be it would take me some more time to understand it, but what makes me speak about it is following two incidents. Yesterday as I sat in my cab, the driver asked me, “which route would you want me to follow?” and I replied saying “you have to drive, you have better idea of roads and the time and kind of traffic, so please take the route that you feel is best”. I don’t know about what he felt but yes I felt relaxed because I let him feel accountable and responsible, but a silent factor that went unseen was that I trusted him that he would move the right way. Second incident was when I board the auto and mistakenly also confessed tat I don’t know the route to my destination so he may follow the route he want. This again spoke of the same trust I had, which was not expressed but silent. They are many such forms of silent trust that you have on many people around, for example: at airports and stations, you would find few people saying I would just be back would you take care of my bag?, when you use any public transport you have a silent trust on the driver that he would get you safe. When you buy things at some one else’s recommendation, when you take decisions on others suggestions. And as I write the blog I realize that trust is always accompanied with risk, and its important to strike balance of it to make life a smoother journey.

Manisha Dawar