Faith.

You don't got trust, you don't got nothing. You can't be best friends with a person you don't trust, because you can't build a friendship if you can't confide in each other. This especially applies if you're getting into a relationships. Relationships don't last long unless you're good friends first, and if there's no trust, there's no friendship, and there's no relationship. If you realize, when people quickly jump into dating each other when they barely just met, they don't last too long. And why not? Because those people don't know each other. They're probably together based on appearance and first impressions. But people aren't always what they seem. You never know, what if the person you're with is abusive? Or possessive? Or just someone you would rather not be with? It's easier to make mistakes on that. But if you got to know someone first, then most likely the friendship is there. In the dictionary, trust is a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. That's a very mere definition. I think they should add that trust is being able to confide in someone without having second thoughts on whether the word will get out or not. How about putting your guards down because you're sure that this person will not hurt you. Or how about...giving someone the ability to crush your world, and trusting that they wouldn't. I can't relate to the last one. I don't give my all to anyone. For some reason, when I start to, they give me something to burst my bubble. So I can't really say that I've ever put everything on the table. Because I know, not from experience, but from instinct, that no one can seriously be trusted. And I will never stop believing that. I noticed that everyone else has at least once broken down because of broken trust. I trust no one. Therefore, I haven't been really hurt. I don't let myself get hurt. Things that hurt other people emotionally, don't hurt me. And you'll rarely ever see me cry. I have cried, but never in my life have I fully 100% been crying. Maybe only when I moved from the Philippines to here. But I disagree when people call me strong. People that have gotten up after being beaten down to rock bottom, are the ones that I would call strong. I come off as insensitive, but I'm really just covered and shielded up in avoidance to being hurt. I'm not strong. I'm weak.