Opening up your heart to someone... means giving out trust first
By chiyochan
@chiyosan (30186)
Philippines
January 4, 2013 12:34am CST
An author once said that "Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart." So have you ever had a time where you have somehow opened up your heart to someone without you realizing that you already trust that person? and even if you do not know the person all too well or have you always tried to see and assess yourself first and make sure that you can really trust the person before opening up to them?
Do you believe you can open up your heart to someone you do not necessarily trust a hudred percent?
4 responses
@devonavis (1854)
• Greece
5 Jan 13
I agree. If you open your heart or yourself to someone then it means you already trust that person, though you may not be aware of it. 
Opening up yourself to someone whom you don't trust is always possible but it's a big risk.
Opening up yourself to someone whom you don't trust is always possible but it's a big risk. @chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
5 Jan 13
Yes, that is quite a big risk, that's true but then we cannot really be aware of anything like this - if we are not too attentive and just let ourselves go for it. sometimes we are always caught unaware, our hearts always tricks our mind thinking it is still in control.
@devonavis (1854)
• Greece
6 Jan 13
Yes. Agree with you. Heart versus the mind is an issue and we have to be aware of it. 
@IntrovertShy (2780)
• Marikina, Philippines
4 Jan 13
For me, I don't trust easily. I have to assess the person first before I trust someone. That is the reason why I didn't easily got a boyfriend unlike my other friends. My other friends got a new boyfriend a few months after they broken up with their boyfriend.
It is just that I want to be sure.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
5 Jan 13
hi there shy, many people are like you, and me... finding it hard to trust especially if our experiences have made us this cautious. I think that's what i am too.. i might not be able to completely trust someone's intention.. i just want to be sure, and safe.. than be sorry and crying because i was too vulnerable.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
5 Jan 13
that's true, to give trust is quite hard to someone we barely know.. but then when we are in public we do give out such trusts blindly, we trust our lives are safe with the bus drivers, with the cook(not to poison us), to the pilots, and even to people we come across the streets as we walk(trust they won't stab us whilst we are unaware) i know this is really out of the kind of trust i am saying in the discussion but its part of it, i guess that we as humans are prone to giving it out - that trust we think we cannot give
@Iriene88 (5343)
• Malaysia
4 Jan 13
At times I do take the risk to open up to someone,
trusting him even though I just know him a couple
of weeks only. We seems connected and become close.
There is still the element of risk but I just don't
know why.
However, in today society it is better we take precaution
because we do not know a person heart as the saying goes;
"Don't judge the book by the cover".
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
5 Jan 13
thanks iriene for your response. :D i think that is really great, when you try to open up someone... giving trust is a good thing, when you do not always try to seize up people and just blindly trust... but you are right in our times its not possible to be just as that without trying to think of what could be the effect on us.
