It is our experiences that make us who we are, and it is through our past that we learn about others and ourselves. For one thing, mistakes are a part of everyday life. Mistakes are meant to be made, and it is through these mistakes that we gain our most beneficial experience from, and where we can obtain the most knowledge, if we choose to let them each us. There have been times in each of our lives where we have made mistakes, and suffered the consequences. When those consequences arose, however, we had two options: to let them take over, and make us subjects of our guilt, or learn from them and become better individuals. Although learning from our mistakes is not as easy as it seems, it is what helps us truly progress to become the best people we can possibly be. Through past mistakes, I have learned that rebuilding trust is much more difficult than keeping previously established trust. This lesson was an important one for me to learn, and can be especially beneficial to others as well because trust is the most vital part of any kind of relationship, and rebuilding broken trust, I have found, takes work, and does not just happen.
To begin, according the Merriam-Webster dictionary trust is defined as the belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc. More specifically, trust means being able to place confidence in someone or something. It is that confidence in other people that provides us each with the opportunity to be ourselves around those whom we trust, and freely share our hopes, fears, dreams, and insecurities with them. It is trust that ultimately allows us to love and be loved. Trust is the foundation on which all relationships are built. In other words, having faith in someone has proven to be the most vital part of a relationship; without it there is no point, and any kind of relationship, will usually meet an inevitable end unless that confidence can be restored.
