Week 7; Post 3

3). Pick one concept or idea from this week's assigned reading and discuss it.  Be sure to relate the concept/idea to your personally by using examples from your life and/or experiences.

One concept that truly stood out to me this week was the concept of Unhealthy Trust. Unhealthy trust is being too trusting in others. People who are too trusting can be gullible and believe outrageous things that others say. I thought that it was really interesting that there is actually a name for this! All my life, I always find it unhealthy for many people (usually girls) to just trust everyone and everything that people say. It makes people come off as stupid a lot of the time because being that gullible means that you typically aren’t thinking. For example, when I was a freshman in high school, my best friend looked up to her brother and hung on his every word. He was a few years older and definitely took advantage of this. One night he told her that they were going to go “hunting for a rare animal” (I forgot what he called it) out on Hicks Road (it is a windy road that has rumors of murders and all kinds of things). So she trusted him and he took her out there. Taught her how to make the animal call and as she got out of the car to call for the animal, he drove away, leaving her in the dark, in the woods, in a scary location. He eventually came back and got her while laughing about how gullible she was. She clearly was not thinking about how a) dumb of an idea it was and b) how there definitely is not a “rare animal that you can call for at night” out there.

Now, I am definitely someone who trusts a lot of people but I do not think that I do it in an unhealthy way. I tend to always want to see the good in people and trust them but I do understand when they are not being trustworthy.