Narcissistic Acts: Better Trust Not!
By: Alaa Babiker
Trust is one of the most important matters in life, a person can actually live because he trusts. When you fully trust a person it means you have given him/her the most honourable matter in life. Trusting a family member, a friend, or even an ally means that you have firmly belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of them.
Religious trust is another form of important life aspects that is deeply rooted inside the hearts of believers. Trusting that God is there and always with you gives comfort and serenity. It is one of the core aspects of life children are better be raised with, because it strengthens their ethics and morals and helps them become better individuals in the future.
It is crucial to have someone in your life that you trust, talk to with no fear of judgement, rely on as yourself, and be totally yourself when you are around him/her; fully trust. But is it really worth it?! Trusting someone other than God and yourself?! Sometimes life teaches us the hard way. It makes us experience that nothing comes easy, even trust! That you have to take your time and get to know the other side extremely well before you fully trust! How many of us today have trusted blindly a family member, a neighbour, a friend and later gets shocked that they don’t really know you that well?! That they keep treating you according to how you look, or they way you sound, or even according to the stories you tell! But that’s life I guess, keeps teaching us the hard way.
People learn every day that losing trust is better than learning the lesson the hard way. Taking precautions is much better than taking the hit and then recover! For some people, it has even become their way of living, not to trust until it is first proven! And the reason for such attitude is that evil has become a permanent resident inside many hearts. There are people in this world who actually plan to take all forms of advantages by only gaining the trust of others, which is very sad because it makes many get to the point where they have not to trust!
Trust at wider range is present, even at governmental level within a country and between countries. Leaders trust each other’s to work hard to achieve goals that helps nations. to vote for each other’s. And to assist one another by guidance and support. But losing trust at this level is different, is does not end by a broken heart or a sad feeling, it ends with large and extensive forms of destruction; assassinations and wars. Starting at the time of our dear Prophet, almost all of Al Kulafaa Rashideen were assassinated, some of them by members they didn’t expect. And many of the new world’s leaders and presidents were also assassinated and it always comes from within.
At the end, I would like to drop a simple question; does the recent war in Sudan was because leaders had trusted too much?! Please share your answers with us, and don’t forget to pray that may God grant wisdom and positive thinking upon our leaders to end this war.