This is a quite interesting topic to partake. There's a Ricky Gervais movie (The Invention Of Lying) that you may find quite interesting. Trust is a matter of trusting oneself first. Sadly, with time and experiences it's quite hard fill a glass that once was easier to fill. There's a factor that enters the equation and it is how bad you were in life or in situations that require trusting. Most of people that broke the trust of someone are the ones who find it hard to trust, it can be the other way around in the case of people whom trust were broke as well. In the end we have to be cautious and focus on judging actions. It's hard to trust people nowadays that's why many individuals prefer to that have their circle fully closed. There are good people though, I still have faith in humanity and changing. Regards.
It's a complex situation and one that is specific to the individual.
I guess I should clarify, I don't personally find it hard to trust, just that I need to see people earn it as trusting a person blindly with no evidence that they deserve it seems rather bonkers to me.
It's worked for 52 years so far, and whilst I've placed trust in the wrong places previously, and also in the right places, I still seek evidence that trust is deserved before I give it.
Blind trust doesn't seem prudent no matter the amount of faith a person has in humanity. We all know there's people out there who don't deserve trust, and that's there's other people who do, it's situational, and actions will determine who is who.
A parent sending their 10 year old to the playground by themselves trusting in their faith in humanity may not work out so well these days. Back where and when I was 10 it was considered normal. That situation may also be location specific. Just an example of how blind trust may be misplaced.
Times change, and people need to change with them because people force those changes societal changes.
Thanks for your comment.