Trust

I've been thinking a lot lately about trust in a variety of forms.

Trust is all over our lives - we trust that when we go to bed at night we'll wake up in the morning. We trust our alarm clocks to do this.

We trust that our mode of transport whichever it may be, will get us to where we're going.

We may trust other people - our spouses/partners, our children, our parents, our doctors and for some of us our Leaders.

We all have leaders of one kind or another - whether it's a teacher, Head teacher, boss, manager,  supervisor or political leader.

This week some people in our nation mourned the former leader of a political party and former leader of the UK. No matter what your thoughts on her, it's clear that some people trusted her and some didn't.

Just lately I've been staggered by the huge number of people and organisations that people have trusted where that trust has been horribly betrayed.

I'm thinking of the following for starters:
Banks;
The meat industry;
Some religious figures e.g. Catholic priests involved in child abuse;
Jimmy Savile and sadly a whole host of other celebrities;
Politicians;
Unfaithful spouses and the list goes on.

What's going on? Why are people and organisations which we formerly trusted no longer to be trusted?

Maybe trust is something we need to be more careful with.