In the plane, after the movie

Just finished the movie "social network" for the second time. 

E.S was M.Z's only friend before he got famous. His best friend was the one who provided all the finances for him to start of the biz. To me, that, along with friendship and a worthy partnership for the biz is more than what I would ask for in a friendship. Looking at how M.Z treated E.S made me consider the issue of trust between friends. I guess he had more to lose. Not many has a biz that is valued at 25 billion dollars. And perhaps, he felt that the negative incident where E.S Had frozen the bank account warrants some level of distrust on how beneficial future partnership will be.

 I am usually termed as trusting and naive by the people closest to me (mostly my partners). They meant to say that that is a virtue I think. They had said before that was what they love about me;  sincerity and purity ( in that, they meant the non-menancing and trusting part of me), I think. Afterall, they knew they could trust me, I think. Whether or not they really did, I wouldn't know.i mean, why would I be suspicious and not trust any of my friends right? For me, especially when I am sharing a great proportion of my life with someone special, I feel that I would be able to trust them to a very large degree. Afterall, after I give my heart wholeheartedly to them and give them as much as I can, there won't be anything to lose, will there? 

Rewatching this movie caused me to think about this trust issue and I started thinking about the people whom I could really trust with my life; my heart, my finances. I invested half of my savings (not much) in stocks under my mum's name. Am I close to my mum? Not really. To what extent is that sum of money safeguarded? I never really thought about it. 

That is the same kind of trust I have with people close to me, except that it extends to other aspects of my life too, not just in the area of finances.

As I was considering this issue of trust, I remembered what the very wise words of King Solomon. He said do not trust in princes and men but put your trust in God. I guess the perspective to take seriously is this: our trust should indeed be in God and no one else because God is perfect and He wont fail us. Likewise, humans are imperfect and will fail us. Does that then mean we become wary of others and start to detach ourselves from the world? I guess the other question to ask then is this: what do we have that we hold on so tightly to that we can't afford to lose? And why is that so?
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