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Reflection On Trust

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About a year ago today my family was going through many issues that affected my mental well being tremendously. Being “home” was similar to being lost, it was a world I wasn’t equipped for, and no longer wanted to be apart of. Things at home took such a turn that my mother sent my sister to live in Florida with her father, I knew then I no longer had a purpose to stay. Following this occasion, I started to ask around for places to live, I even went as far as looking for rooms to rent in the area. Generously one of my best friends, Jessica, offered to let me stay with her for the remainder of the school year. She and her parents took me in days later, accepting me with loving arms. Living with my friends family started to become more of a home to me than any home I’d lived in prior. This transformation in my life was one of the first in which I allowed myself to be cared for by others. With this I want to explore the idea of trust within my life, and how it has affected me. Trust is something I was taught over time not to believe in, or more importantly I was shown not to believe in. Throughout many of my life experiences I’ve learned that trust can only be plausible if my attitudes towards the idea would permit it. My sense of trust within people has been diminished, leaving me with the notion that trusting is a huge risk. The risk of being “let down” by someone who chose not to commit to an act, is a risk I am normally am not able to perform. After countless occasions of

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