This touched me. I have been questing how one should live their life in India, I live by default trust which has led to betrayal be it a fraud or a shopkeeper charging extra. I feel irritated, anxious with this, and every time this happens I lose hope.
Your view just took me back to my trip to Dubai last week, there is no one to check in bus if you have paid since there is a card system, and so in the whole city.
And I would love to explore what does this mistrust cost to individual? Make them sinical?
Any thoughts?
I would rather live by trusting then by mistrust filled inside me. And the cost we pay is high, social experience to economic!
That's a tough one, Pankhuri. I don't know the cost. One of the things I have tried to commit to is reduce the cost of mistrust by action, by going first. That gives me agency in the sense that I don't have to wait for social norms to change. I can bring out the better side of people by going first and giving them the benefit of the doubt. I find reciprocity to be powerful.
Ahhhh, right. I have felt that too, Most of the times.
My relationship with money has been bad, and if something happens in that context It becomes difficult to let go. But I hear you.
Can you share an example of when you have not waited for the social norms to change? Trying to understand what you shared deeply and not just by words.
This touched me. I have been questing how one should live their life in India, I live by default trust which has led to betrayal be it a fraud or a shopkeeper charging extra. I feel irritated, anxious with this, and every time this happens I lose hope.
Your view just took me back to my trip to Dubai last week, there is no one to check in bus if you have paid since there is a card system, and so in the whole city.
And I would love to explore what does this mistrust cost to individual? Make them sinical?
Any thoughts?
I would rather live by trusting then by mistrust filled inside me. And the cost we pay is high, social experience to economic!
That's a tough one, Pankhuri. I don't know the cost. One of the things I have tried to commit to is reduce the cost of mistrust by action, by going first. That gives me agency in the sense that I don't have to wait for social norms to change. I can bring out the better side of people by going first and giving them the benefit of the doubt. I find reciprocity to be powerful.
Ahhhh, right. I have felt that too, Most of the times.
My relationship with money has been bad, and if something happens in that context It becomes difficult to let go. But I hear you.
Can you share an example of when you have not waited for the social norms to change? Trying to understand what you shared deeply and not just by words.
I've started smiling while passing others who live in my apartment building :)