Trustworthiness

How can I look trustworthy to someone who doesn’t even know me?

That’s an interesting question, because even if someone does know me, trust is a tricky thing.

I know people I would trust with my life who I wouldn’t even consider trusting with my thoughts!

I know people I would trust with my thoughts who I wouldn’t want to trust with my life.

Every single person in this world has their own code of ethics, their own set of beliefs and their own way of incorporating these things into the way they live. 

Trustworthiness seems to grow out of the boundaries I set from my interpretation of these things.

I don’t know if you are trustworthy because of who you are, or how I perceive you, so in the end it is a combination of experience and my own abilities to discern what another’s real thoughts are that defines those I think are trustworthy.

I suppose that is true for everyone else too.