The Lazy Intellectual

Trust: A Simple Word, A Complicated Feeling Trust — just five letters, a small word we use all the time. But if you really think about it, it’s anything but simple. It’s the invisible glue that holds our relationships together — with family, friends, partners, even co-workers. And yet, despite how important it is, trust can be incredibly hard to understand, and even harder to hold on to. For a long time, I thought I had trust figured out. I believed I was careful with people, that I knew how to read them. I wasn’t someone who trusted too easily. I liked to think I could sense bad energy, avoid the wrong people, and protect my peace. But then something happened — something that completely caught me off guard. Someone I had trusted for years did something that made me question everything. Not just about them, but about myself. How could I have been so wrong? How did I not see it coming? That’s when I realized something important: trust isn’t a one-time decision. It’s a process. It’...