Honour The Trust

I had almost stopped writing and had virtually forgotten about my blog after I landed up for my management education and was amidst loads of assignments, presentations, case studies, events and guest lectures. I thank my very dear friend “@SIIB” for coaxing me to write and I am once again convinced about the factuality of my last article on “friends”.

There would have been situations in each of our lives where in we feel our trust has been shaken and we have been taken for a toss. As a child, I used to ask my mom,”Maa, Y do we trust people?” and with an assuring smile my mom used to reply, “The world survives on trust and faith. Whom can we rest our faith on, if not on our fellow human beings and specially our near and dear ones?” These words have served as my guidelines in the formative years of my life and even today. Over the years, however I have realized how easy it is for “certain” people to disrespect your trust for whatever the reason may be. But then life comes about as a full circle and you are made to taste your own recipe someday. So a word of caution to all such people.

Our act not only displays our ethics, virtues and morals but also our upbringing and our mettle. One thing or virtue which sets you apart from the crowd is the way you nurture someone’s trust and “honour” it. You tend to build lifetime relations with such people or organizations. More you treat this sapling of trust with water of care and confidence; more will be the benefits that you will reap out of it. However, if you disrespect someone’s trust, life will take its own course of action. Someone’s trust in you instills a feeling of “responsibility” in you and a sense of “faith” in the person resting his/her trust in you. In whatever part of the world we are, whichever place we are, rules of the game remain the same. At home, your family rests their trust in you, at work place it’s the organization and especially your boss resting his trust in you, in social circle it’s your friends who put their faith in you. And one must honour their Trust. There’s another facet to it and that is “Commitment”. The equation of trust is balanced by commitment from your end. If you default on your commitment, the thread of trust breaks and your relations suffer because it is not that everybody will rest their trust in you but only the ones close to you. In today’s world, people believe in working relations and so trust is almost transient. But then whoever Trusts you – may it be you as a person, as a friend, your abilities and capabilities; try to live up to that trust. Otherwise not only your relations suffer but also your image.

I still abide by what I was taught as a child; have reaped benefits, learnt lessons of life, have got to know different types of people and most importantly MYSELF. Simply said, “Honour the Trust someone rests in You” because that not only makes you a good individual and a great human being but also gives you a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment within.