A Matter of Trust

Did you ever play that game as a kid where you stand with your arms at your sides and someone stands behind you and you are supposed to fall backward, and they catch you? It was meant to build trust. That trust comes in handy now. I was traveling behind a truck loaded with what looked like telephone poles yesterday (the truck pictured here seems tame by comparison.) I wondered to myself as we both sped down the Interstate, "how do I know he has these secured properly?" "Will he hit a bump and send one of the poles flying?" "Would he even see what had happened if one of them came smashing through my windshield?" It made me realize that there are a lot of times where we simply must trust others. In a restaurant, "is this food cooked properly?" "Did the person picking these mushrooms know good ones from poison ones?" Walking down the street, "did the person with that big, mean dog secure the gate or am I about to be mauled?" You get the idea. So remember as you go about your day, it's all a big game of trust.