Trust levels

It's not a bad idea to take what I will call a trust "temperature" from time to time.
How come some of us trust more, trust less, might not trust at all?
There are reasons for this, and without awareness, human beings are much less capable of change.
We may have lived in an openly trusting household as a child, we may have had an alcoholic or abusive mother of father, we may have had a coach or teacher who really bruised our ego at some stage of  development (this happens quite a lot).
Here's the thing. Just because we had our ego or heart bruised at one point or another does not mean that it does not get any better or change for what really is the common good. And the actual truth is that it might even get worse or get better and then bruised again.
Some of us get stuck. And some of us get stuck really bad. And when we are stuck really bad, the only real thing that will get us unstuck is another human being or some human beings. This is true. Thus, we need each other. Far more badly than any of us are at times capable of realizing. But it's still true.
In all the glitz and glam and Chris Rock jokes of last night, ALL of those folks in that theater need one another and love and connectedness just as bad as the people living in the rural trailer homes I saw in Ohio and West Pennsylvania yesterday. This is true. So BS all we want and rationalize and escape and maybe complain, but human beings are human beings. Tigers need other tigers. Penguins need the penguins. You almost never see a penguin alone on a sheet of ice do you?
There is a reason for that.
We are no different.
And it is really damn cool actually when we see through the screens and money and nonsense and we can look, feel, and relate to the hearts of other human beings.
Remember, physical bruises on our skin do not remain forever. Often they will subside in maybe a week or two or three. While the heart and mind may heal in a slightly different manner, it is still almost never anything that should take a decade or even a lifetime.
But it happens. And it doesn't need to.
But people (you and me and YOU) are the ones who ultimately alter these trajectories.
That's the most beautiful thing of all.