Trust.

Take a glass plate. 

Drop it on the ground. 

It shatters. 

Beat it with a hammer. 

Hundreds of pieces. 

Pick up the pieces. 

Now put it back together. 

You can't, can you?

     Trust. By dictionary definition, trust is the belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc. Building trust with someone for the first time isn't really all that hard... but once it breaks, it's one of the hardest things ever to get back. Today, trust is practically nonexistent. You think someone will keep a secret, but then they go around showing people your messages and telling everything you've said. People you thought were your bestfriends are suddenly going behind your back spreading things you didn't necessarily want people to know about. You lose friends, you lose relationships. Everything changes.

TRUST BREAKS. 

     The plate represents the trust between two people. It's really hard to mend what's been broken. In any situation really, whether it's trust, love, friendship, once it's broken it's very difficult to fix.
   
     One thing I've come to realize is trust isn't in what they say. It's in what they do. They might say they won't do something and then they go and do it behind your back. That's not trust. It's all in what they do.

     Another thing that happens is we trust that someone won't do something, even when they don't say that they won't. This also ruins the trust we think we have. We think that just because we trust that somebody won't do something, they won't. But then reality hits us hard whenever they do that thing. This is one of my biggest struggles. Something usually happens that I don't like, I talk to them about it, think they won't do it again, and then when they go do it, it crushes me. But there was no said agreement that they wouldn't do it, I just assumed.

     Trust is a very strong word and should be taken more seriously than it is.

"...a trustworthy man keeps a secret." -Proverbs 11:13