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Going by the happenings in the society now, one thing that is missing is trust and this means that no one is to be trusted. I could remember listening to a program on a radio set where one of the presenters said, no one is to be trusted, the man even said he can't even trust himself not to even talk of his shadow. When I heard this, I was shocked and it's dawn on me that, indeed, no one is to be trusted but to some certain extent, trying and trust yourself.
Trust is the missing key in the fast moving world of today, and this is because, people find it difficult to trust their fellow human beings. Trust is gold and should be cherished but people have turn the trust of others to nothing. Friends no longer trust themselves, husband no longer trust his wife and vice versa, parents no longer trust their children and vice versa, employers no longer trust their employees and vice versa. All these form of distrust stems from the fact that when people put their trust in people they love and cherish most, they tend to be betrayed. Betrayal is a great arsenal of distrust and it has ruined many relationships.
Sometimes ago, in the early 2020, there was a man who went to a village to establish a farm, when talking about this farm, it's not a small farm I am talking about here, but a farm that covered large expanse of land. In this farm, there are many livestock and planting of crops are also the other of day in the farm in which the man even had a garri and palm oil processing factory on the farm.
But, after all effort being put in place by this wealthy man, he was looking for whom to trust and this is because he's done and committed a very big project in the city to a friend's son who mismanaged the affairs and the running of the company which later led to conflict and rivalry between the two families, that later generated into the two families going their separate ways, but the deed was done already that the business could not rise again but went into extinction. See whom the man trusted and how he was betrayed.
So, going back to the farm project, this time around, the man took one of his wife younger brother whom he trusted very well to handle and manage the farm for him, at the initial stage,.the guy was doing well and was managing the runnings of the business to the best of his knowledge, but at a particular period of time when the business was fast growing , the man fell sick and could not even visit the farm as he used to do. So, his wife and children were taking him to hospitals for treatment, but all to no avail, it's one day that a man of God came to his ward to pray for the sick people that he was told that, some dark art power has been channelled against him just to kill him and take over his business. This message was given to his wife. Immediately the wife got the message, she got furious, but the man told her not to handle the matter with anger and this is because her younger brother was on a mission of killing the husband to take over the company to himself. So, she relaxed her nerves and the man prayed for them. So, the woman traveled to their village and discussed the issue with her parent whom called the younger brother and asked him questions which he later confessed to doing something against the man. He said when he was not mad and that how will he be the one doing the job here and the man would be the one collecting the money. So, they all pleaded with him and the whole saga was resolved, but the business was closed down and the man got healed.
So, trust is a scarce commodity in the world of today, like I used to tell people, trust yourself and not others, though, people are looking for the one to trust with their lives and their properties, but it's a pity to know that trust is scarce. If you can be trusted, then their are opportunities out there for grab.
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