Dec 27, 2005
I posted this on my blog a few weeks ago .. i guess its appropriate for this thread :
People should never surprise you, and I will tell you why. Expect the worst from people because that is often what you will get. Once you get it you're like, "Yep, I knew that was coming." And when someone does something nice you're thinking, "What do you want?" and eventually you find out what they want and you are like, "Yep, I knew that was coming." And every great while you get some people who are genuinely nice, and you think to yourself "Hmm, maybe I can trust.." - NO. You cannot. Their niceness shouldn't surprise you because essentially it will just take them longer to f*** up. If you expect good from people you will always be surprised. When you get surprised, you react, and when you react, you are easily read, if people can easily read you, they can easily manipulate you, and if you get manipulated you are not respected, and without respect you are worthless. Back to my original point, don't let people surprise you. Real BadAsses are never surprised.
....I was not going to write the following few sentences but after rereading the last paragraph I deem it necessary. While my comments may come off aggressive, they would in fact protect people from getting hurt. However, one cannot know "hurt" without experiencing love, and one cannot experience love without trust. I would rather get hurt every once in a while then never experience love. I would say that one should not trust anyone completely or 100%, but should trust a very very selective few 95%.
You get as much as you put in, so sometimes, letting your guard down may be the best decision you can ever make - if you make it with the right people. And by the the right people, I mean no one.