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Trust Nature, Trust Yourself
Trust is built into making new friends and keeping old friends. It’s built into blind dates and long, long marriages. It is built in the spiritual side of life whether it is an organized religion, or just being connected to something, anything, that you cannot feel, but that you know in your heart. Like a big, far away mountain, you can see it but you can’t touch it, and yet you still know it’s there. And if it’s foggy? You still know it’s there, right?
Trust is like a mountain with pretty “faith” clouds and blue sky in the background. I’m not talking about faith necessarily in the religious sense. It could be, yes. But trust is a form of positivity. It’s a decided sense and belief that good things will happen, just like believing that the natural world is beautiful all by itself.
Trust allows us to try something we’ve never tried before. It’s trust that says, “I may suck at this, but it’s totally possible I’ll be okay at it. And, I’m not afraid to try.” It also says, “If I do suck at this, I still get to learn something new and in the bargain, maybe, something I did not know about myself.” And that’s very, very cool.
Trust lets you increase your lifetime experiences! How many experiences we have is what makes up our life. In “Die With Zero” by Bill Perkins (That’s the summary. The whole book is pretty cool, too), Perkins says gathering…
