Charles Flanagan
Professor Fopeano
Adventure/Experiential Learning
30 September 2015
Trust
Trust is a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. ( Trust is developed through family and friends. For example, whenever someone has a problem, he or she always looks to tell their best friend most of the time and avoid their parents. This trust is always with immature kids. What they don’t know is that trust is a big deal and trusting your friend means that you completely trust them that they can keep a secret for you and not tell anyone. Developing trust takes a long time to gain between friends. Once trust is developed you can tell your friend, whoever he or she is, and they promise that they will not tell anyone no matter what. A situation in my life where trust is a factor was when it was my first semester of college at my old school, the University of Hartford, in Hartford, Connecticut between myself and my parents. When I moved into college on freshmen move in day, I promised my parents that I would do well in school and make the baseball team. They weren’t so sure about my decision when they wanted me to go to community college, then transfer out. However, I wanted to get the college experience started right away. It was my choice and they agreed with me. As I went to school and go started right away, I did what I had to do in the beginning of the first month and a half. After, I slacked and goofed off. I started not to care about anything except having fun. I didn’t make the baseball team and by the end of my first semester of college freshmen year, I passed four classes, dropped a class, and failed a class. My parents were very disappointed and devastated that they lost trust in me and they wanted me to drop out and transfer to community college after my first semester of college. An advantage of trusting others is that you can rely on someone else to keep a secrete, whether it’s embarrassing, serious, or whatever it may be. A disadvantage of trusting others is that you never know when they might spill out your secrete that you told them and now everyone knows about it when you trusted your friend not to say anything to anyone. My life would be split down the middle with trust. I want to have someone that I can trust, but then I don’t. I always like that one person that I can always go to and talk about anything and I know I can trust him or her, but growing up in my town at my high school, everyone liked to gossip, spread rumors, and spill out secrets about each other. I was never about that kind of life. I never did any of that because it never concerned me and it was none of my business. So, I have a few people in my life that I can go to and tell them anything about my life and what’s going on because I trust them. The one main person that I can go to and tell him anything and know I can trust is my dad. I have told him everything in my life and now and even in the future, I can trust him.