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The Difference Between Trust and Being Naive
What Is the Difference
Between Trusting
and Being Naive?
The difference is vast,
yet
the dividing line is very subtle.
Being naive
means being ignorant.
Trusting
is the most intelligent act in existence.
And the symptoms
to be remembered are these:
both will be
cheated,
both will be deceived,
but the person who is naive
will feel cheated,
will feel deceived,
will be angry,
will start distrusting people.
His naiveness will sooner or later become distrust.
And the person
who trusts
is also going to be cheated,
is also going to be
deceived,
but he is not going to feel hurt.
He will simply feel compassionate towards those
who have cheated him,
who have deceived him,
and his trust
will not be lost.
His trust
will go on increasing in spite of all deceptions.
His trust will never turn into distrust of humanity.
These are the symptoms.
In the beginning they both look the same.
But in the end,
the quality of being naive
turns into distrust,
and the quality of trusting
goes on becoming more trusting,
more compassionate, more understanding of
human weaknesses,
human frailties.
The trust is so valuable
that one is ready to lose everything,
but not the trust.
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