What is Trust?

         Hello readers! Today I want to talk about trust with you and my perspective on it. I've been thinking about it a lot lately as I've heard about countless situations where a certain person's actions resulted in a loss of trust. And though we talk about trust we never really know what it is. So this week, I'm going to talk about what trust is to me.

“We know much better what trust does than what trust is” wrote Castaldo et al. in their 2010 review of marketing, strategic management, psychology, and sociology literature.

        So what IS trust then? I guess it's different for everyone, but to me personally, it's actions. You can never truly believe that someone will do what they say they will. There's no way of knowing. It is true, however, when they say that actions speak louder than words. Trust is a feeling. It's a feeling of security, and the feeling of truly knowing that when someone says they will do something, they will do it. Trust, the feeling, can only be obtained through actions. In my personal opinion, once someone continually shows you how they feel, and shows you how reliable they are, you reach the feeling that is trust. However, it is far easier to have a feeling of mistrust. Mistrust I would say is just the opposite. All in all I don't think of trust as anything more than an emotion. To me personally though, I think it is the most important emotion. Trust drives relationships, business ordeals, where you buy a house, where your children go to school, who you tell your secrets to. Trust is what makes the world go around. A single emotion. Who do you trust? What is trust to you?