Ramblings - First published January 2022
Ramblings from David
January 2022
The Ramblings content below is a former Ramblings from last year with a focus on trust. Trust is instrumental, as a foundation, for qualities in good living to flourish – such as peace, which will be looked at in the next Ramblings.
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” William Shakespeare
Joy, love, trust, happiness. There are many more. Important to most people and some would argue other species. What are they? Is joy a thing with a fabric shape or form? Is trust a structure shared and enjoyed? Is happiness the result of something that a person or group makes and is then enjoyed, or an unveiling of aspects of life which result in the experience we individually describe as happiness? What a person senses is personal to them… or is it? Does a comedian with a good joke, and knows it, have a direct physiological affect upon those who are looking?
To give a focus to this, let us look at a particular aspect. Trust. What is trust? Philosophical writing is abundant with a vast spectrum of interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche said, “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can not believe you.”
Most of the workings of human society are based on trust. If there is one thing that seems to be trusted by the majority of people, it is the failings of the human condition; unable to be trusted in a complete way. A particular point that pleases most lawyers. There are however, many people that can be trusted although the numbers dwindle when considering those who will trust fully; a situation that is unsurprising, but still a situation that reduces the potential for full freedom of living in good circles, with the health benefits and life enhancing aspects, such companionship affords.
Now for something a little different. The following is a mosaic of comments and short passages written by me, to give a dimension and texture to the subject of trust.
Trust; an invention of language to describe something as a singular aspect when its nature is one of countless holds and balances, that set themselves in places that strengthen and grow where the belief and knowledge of a freedom with others establishes itself as a place where you can ‘just be’, and have no urgency to defend or flee.
A trust never broken of an inner circle; throws out all ills and foul interveners from that realm that can not be broken. Can not be broken? It must be seen that way although it may not be that way. If never questioned and never dishonoured, the trust of friendships is a shield for full vigour in life. Yes, it is delicate if abused but a true joy when left to shine. Playfulness is free to flourish. Never is an age too old to relish the life power of the playful camaraderie of true friendships. A back turned, free from all daggers where trust stands, a tower of harmony and empowerment.
But what is this thing you speak of? A thing called trust as though it is a garment, a shield, a fortress. A unison of 'being' between those associated. How can it be that you all stand before me and claim to have this shared thing and yet I am not privy to it. Does it repel as well as contain?
What is the nature of the things we value and hold dear. Friendships, love, joy, trust; things that are special to us. Things that exist and can be felt yet lack the material substance most understand by which a measure in science can be made.
The reward from being trusted to do your best and then doing what is right and within your ability, is more than money can buy. If the position someone is in is a mystery to most, it is then an opportunity to truly shine, NOT to scam and attempt to make fools out of those who in good faith trusted – it causes pain where the moment could shine.
I trusted you and yet the world we knew fell. Is trust a vacant lot to those who lack trust? Is it a Spartan luxury to those who fight life to find a way of living life?
I would have trusted but the fear of being harmed prevented me from being open. Your presence made me close the door in haste – what is it you looked for more when all that there was, was seen?
Given the hand of trust, I saw that there was an agreement in your mind; a contract which you value yet the person stood across the vastness, tied to assumptions laid out in words.
[The manipulator]
Ha ha. The fool has trusted the moment. A deception, a trap made well. How good it feels to use what is holy as a snare for payment that underhanded intended.
[The trusting]
Who stands with God yet relishes to harm?
[?]
No one my friend. Your plight has been seen. All that stand and take that – that which gleams so, are nothing but confessors in the court of the King.
From the oldest to the most recent records of humanity, betrayal of trust is one of, if not the, major source of imbalance that troubles society and relationships. If there is one thing that we all should have learnt by now, it's that by not being open, instantly apologetic for wrong doing and being willing to forgive, there is a temporary, or not so temporary, loss of freedom and joy in living.
Is your trust an additive or subtractive model of engagement? Is there a sphere of social engagement where all is offered yet the sensitivities remain – cunningly shielded against harm.
Blind are the friends to the centred peace that shrouds in a haze the true hope that nothing will harm the sensitivities offered in all honesty, and yet all is not offered for the fear of harm. Who then can a person find complete trust in. It is not easy to say that the moment is forever yet the moment may be true and genuine, having no element of not forever until there is a moulding, that takes the freedom from a place of glee to a place of considered offering, of what is considered safe or appropriate.
An honourable trust unbroken has huge benefits for the individuals within the circle. It is however a rare thing if frailty and straying does not in some way damage the bonds that maintain the trust of a group. It is not to say that all is lost but it does require the will, the love, the openness and the ability to forgive for the circle to be remade; in many instances make resolute the determination of those who care and have felt the pain of loss or betrayal, to move on and endeavour to not allow a tarnishing of what is special again.
Support your friends and never betray a confidence as long as the will and intention is not to be cruel or foul.
Pull legs, be a joker, have fun but never go to those places that cause real pain. Trust between friends should be treated like a treasure; valued, prized, looked at joyfully.
Those that connive and try to hurt people in secret, manipulating the sensitivities of those within a trusting group, are bringing a doom upon themselves. What fools some are, to have what so many people seek but they themselves see fit to harm it; the trust, that makes the thing they are attempting to control something special, is the very thing, if they are successful in their foul scheming, which will be reduced or be no more. No longer of the worth so cherished.
The judgement that is now, will be upon them and those who seek to damage the joys of the unity God would wish for all in their places and ways.
What are the reasons some choose to cause harm to the wonderful things?
Jealous... and not of a mind to be other. Too long they have neglected to celebrate what they are and look to the things they have not cherished in their own ways. A wish to deny the simple joys of ‘being’ in others is a sign, a reflection of their own lacking in the places they should have shown caring.
The thing we call trust is part of a wonderful sort of fabric that can grow and shine when celebrated. It exists yet it is not of a substance known to man.
Not all people can come together in a unified circle of trust. Different people live and exist in societal worlds that can be so different that any comfortable ways for most concerned, if forced together, are not possible except in the most formal of behaviours. It is not to say that different circles can not coexist and achieve great things together, but the heart and freedom of ‘being’ is a goal to achieve; to be strong and able to look out into the wider world and enjoy many things. The core of stability comes from the inner knowing of the good and the great things in your own worlds with the ones that you love, support, have affinity with, care for and are supported and empowered by; the ones you trust.
The trust in the freedom of ‘being’ between yourself and others, is to recognise and celebrate the joy of God in your lives and the world. It is an act of faith.
Thanks to God.
Previous ramblings can be found in the archive. For last months, click the link: December 2021 Ramblings
