Not trusting ANYONE is a form of mental illness. Trusting everyone is a form of either great innocence or great naivete. The middle path is always best. The extremes in life, like the pendulum's swing, serve to remind one to always return to the middle path.

Or to put it another way: If you find you can't trust anyone, you're obviously hanging around the wrong people. I've met a few I could trust.

But if you were to ask Bob Dylan about it, he said:

Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best.
Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to do what's right and not be second-guessed.
Don't trust me to show you beauty
When beauty may only turn to rust.
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself.

Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to know the way that will prove true in the end.
Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to find the path where there is no if and when.
Don't trust me to show you the truth
When the truth may only be ashes and dust.
If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.

Well, you're on your own, you always were,
In a land of wolves and thieves.
Don't put your hope in ungodly man
Or be a slave to what somebody else believes.

Trust yourself
And you won't be disappointed when vain people let you down.
Trust yourself
And look not for answers where no answers can be found.
Don't trust me to show you love
When my love may be only lust.
If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.


I trust myself...and a few other people too.

- LH