Trust, can that be bought?
You can not buy love. Some buys time with another person’s body. That is not love. Maybe some kind of comfort. There are many similarities between Love and Trust. Both are feelings for another person or being.
You can show love and trust. You can earn love and trust. You can not buy love or trust.
Why do then sellers ask you to buy their trust? Is it a matter of culture? Could very well be. In my Swedish cultural background we have another approach to trust. You do not distrust other persons. Distrust is something that is earned from bad behaviour.
Other cultures I have enjoyed to study is the Arabic. There you show respect and eventually earn trust. You do not buy trust. You earn trust by showing respect over a long period of time.
My personal experience from West Africa is that distrust is the original status of mind towards each and everyone outside your family or village. There must be a historical background to this.
How do you then work the best way through these states of mind. I am sorry but there is not any easy way forward. What we know is that we all have our perceptions and ways to make decisions on our own way of respecting a gut feeling.
It is probably just as with love. You fall in love, so you fall into trusting somebody. It is a feeling of mutuality. The difference is that you can not demand somebody to love you. You can demand somebody to respect you but you can only ask somebody to trust you.
So the answer is, yes, sometimes and rarely.
But Can’t buy me love by The Beatles
