Would you suspect or trust
By billybibps
@billybibps (99)
India
June 7, 2010 2:20am CST
Sometimes while talking with a friend and walking on the road searching for an address or person, some stranger might show up giving answers for your questions without being asked.... Sometimes, by their looks I suspect they be thieves or kidnappers, I know it maybe be silly but sometimes I trust them.
Even today, I was out with my mother to a government office searching for the head person and another man of around 60years age approached and said he would be there in the office behind the tree or maybe in another building across the street. I suspected him though I shouldn't have. I asked my mother if she knew him and she said no. When we finished our purpose, we are moving out and I saw the man again and he said, 'Was the head there, got your job done... ok then'
Only then I came to know he was a villager and most villagers have the helping attitude... some experience I wanted to thought I should share !
Please share your opinions as well friends :)
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10 responses
@markiy071384 (241)
• Philippines
7 Jun 10
I am a person who easily give my trust to my friends or to somebody that I meet. But if my trust in one person is broken, I think it is very hard to gain it again. I always trust people around me.
@billybibps (99)
• India
7 Jun 10
you have a really sweet character in you friend but please do be careful when dealing with strangers, not all are really good people. Most people do anything for money and they can hurt us as well.
I'm not saying you should not be friendly, but be a little suspicious as well, a little not ok :)
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
7 Jun 10
Yes,it is true,sometimes we suspect strangers that lend their help.
It is a normal feeling i guess.
When i am looking for someone in a new place i also choose whom to ask direction.
Mostly i want to ask an elderly person.
But,still,we really cannot trust everyone.
Being cautious is still the best defense before we ever regret.
@med889 (5941)
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7 Jun 10
It depends on the surroundings because there are some places where you cannot simply trust someone so easily and you have to always be on your guard so very rarely do I trust someone on the road especially. Once someone has even misguided me when I asked him an address.
@juggerogre (1653)
• Philippines
7 Jun 10
I think it would be better to not trust any stranger. We could lose more when the stranger we trusted turned out to be a criminal. Its better to always play safe. They can't blame us if we didn't truest them. After all we are just thinking of our safety.
@MRSSTEVENS (125)
• United States
7 Jun 10
It is hard to trust anybody nowadays, but if i see somebody who looks lost, i always try to help them...There is no real way to tell, without profiling and judging people by their looks. I just follow my instincts, there;s more to it than we think and usually if something seems wrong, it is. we all have pharamones that help us to determine.
@kengoshika (186)
• Japan
7 Jun 10
Well that is a very good experience. For me i just accept whatever the person offers, because how could someone trust you if you cant trust anyone.
@stephbond89 (359)
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7 Jun 10
It is very hard not to suspect people in this day and age- there are so many people out there who want to hurt us or steal from us, but then there are genuine people who just want to help! I am the latter, and if I overhear someone in a street wondering out loud where say the supermarket is- and I know, I would tell them- so long as they looked like they may appreciate it!!!
I find it hard with kids now a days- if you see a small child crying in the supermarket, looking for his or her mum or dad, I feel I cannot go over and help them find their parents because when you do find the frantic parent they suspect you as a peadophile!!! Ok not so much a young woman like me, but if my husband helped a child he may be seen that way whereas he is a daddy in training and just wants to help the poor little child before someone bad DOES get to them!
I think it's hard to know who you can trust. It is a sad sad world we live in where we cannot trust anybody!!!
@achilles2010 (3051)
• India
7 Jun 10
This world is full of good and bad people both. Once in a city I was not familiar with, I asked for directions. The man, offered to help. He said he is going in the same direction and he would gladly show us the way. I let him in the car. After driving for another 15 minutes, he told us to stop. He got off and pretended to ask people around. He came back to tell us that he has lost the way. Then we realized that he just wanted to have a free ride. He took us to the place he wanted to go and left us to find our own way. After I found the place I was going to I realized he had taken us in the opposite direction. Even later, I discovered to my utter dismay there are people who draw a pleasure in misleading you. Therefore, whenever I have to seek directions, I confirm from more than one person.
@knicnax (2233)
• Philippines
7 Jun 10
I usually go with the flow. If someone approaches me, especially when I need help, I go along. have a nice chit-chat. While that is happening though, I pray so hard that the Lord protect me. I don't want to put off people, and I don't want to judge them.
@zralte (4178)
• India
7 Jun 10
I have the habit of trying to help, but I don't offer my opinion or help always. Only if they ask me or if I think they really need my help.
Also I have met lots of 'Helpful' people as well. Like you, I trust some, and suspect some. Some of them just tell you what they think, not because they know. I usually nod along and if I trust that they know what they are talking about, I go along with it, and if I have a funny feeling, I go and ask someone else.
