A Matter Between Trunk and Truth

Repetition is effective. So I shall post once more: trust is timeless. As I was trying to wrap my head and hands around the word, I realized the overwhelming territory of these five letters: T R U S T. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, trust is defined as the assured reliance on the character, ability strength, or truth of someone or something; one in which confidence is place. When is the last time you can say the definition of trust was actually fulfilled when you used it? Like onomatopoeia or supercilious, trust is one of those great words found absent in the attendance records of our thoughts and actions. The void is often occupied by its polar opposite: disbelief.

At a personal level, lack of trust is unfortunate. But what happens if you up the number involved by one hundred? Taking a step (okay, many steps) further, what happens to the significance of trust at a world-wide level? The trust factor no longer resides amongst a handful; it rests in the lives of 6.5 billion. My immediate response: impossible. How can we trust 6.5 billion when we can't event trust our own siblings?

The answer is beyond me. We must have faith. The world is only going to get smaller and smaller. Indeed, the saying, "It's a small world after all" bears more weight each passing day. For this reason, cardinal collisions are certainties, not predictions. As the advancement of life and all that exists in it grows exceedingly, we must maintain a sense of integrity. Eastern and Western ambitions will cross paths. The point of cardinal collision reveals more of itself each day. This image, this vision, our future here on earth will remain a pretty one if the integrity of trust withstands the testssssssssssssss (yes, there are many tests) of time. It brings me great fear to ponder a world without trust. Unfortunately, we are nearing this predicament. I am afraid.

Thirty years from now, I hope to crack open my good old dictionary to define trust just as it is today. Sandwiched between trunk and truth, the definition of trust must meet my twinkling eye. If not, the page will cease to be read; illegible are the words on a page dampened by sorrows of the eye.