Whom to trust and whom not to - the existential dilemma by Puneet Rajhans

Whom to trust and whom not to - the existential dilemma by Puneet Rajhans
Trust me to not trust others

The other day Gilani told National Assembly that Manmohan trusted him to no end endeared many to visit the trust factory. Trustworthy, trust deficit and trust heavy are being bandied about effortlessly ever since this trust act between the two opened up. This trust riposte from Gilani has been made possible by a series of acts (don’t dare to take it as acts of commission and omission) beginning with eye contact followed by handshake and the dialogue delivery that the two played host to.
Well whom to trust and for how long is a query that puts anyone in an existential dilemma, given the propensity to move to a new "engagement of convenience" if the previous one has run out of life and ideas.

Common situations

You have trust built up, rocking and undiluted, in some fairly common situations. When you take an auto, the autowallah would fleece you, is the trust the commuter shares with auto driver. When you board a stuffed bus, there is an inbuilt trust that the wallet you carry would be parted with effortless ease if you don't get a vantage point to secure yourself from this act of deceit. The mindless acts of courting, dumping and courting doesn't endear you to new wave of entrapment as there is enough trust that this alignment would hit a new low sooner than later.
Any travel holiday package that promises to take you to moon and ends up as a drain on your savings and sanity lets enough skepticism to seep in the moment a new package is put on the table. Even for the price of one you are being tempted to take two on board.
The lines played on and on that trust me i will be through thick and thin is the most abused treatment that trust as a baggage could get with trust sinking to a new low, well almost writing its obit. When an employee joins a new place, the HR guy gives you the trust that he would be bringing an added thrust to see to it that you make an early exit if your thoughts don't synchronise with the larger picture of the company. What that larger picture is difficult to decipher as it varies across organisations. Some may be too honest to digest any act of digression; and some may be too sinking to take an offence to any act of impropriety.
All in all a father can't trust son, the mother can't trust daughter , the members of extended family don't trust anyone, and on the larger beat no one trusts the politicos and administrators whose VIP movement and excessive posturing is enough to fail them on trust test. Given the testy times we live in, the testing equations that we are subjected to and trust toast that we fail to raise every time a new entity joins the chorus, there is trust chimes in short supply.
Finally, the mauling that Team India received at the hands of Aussies in the T20 encounter gives the BCCI enough trust that they won’t press for extra five day test when Aussies come later this year. To be on the safer side, let the schedule be for higher one day matches as the five day mauling would be too much for cricketing fraternity to take in their stride.

Trust me. If you can't trust me then you can trust anyone from any part of the world, including my Sworn Foe. Well that is the line that should be played on and on. And we end up playing, "Trust me. If you can't trust me, then you can't trust anyone.

Puneet Rajhans