You may find the presence of others highly unnerving today, and your unease may be compounded when your obligations require you to labor side by side with a colleague or associate. As unimpressed as you are by the assertions these individuals make during your partnership, you may wonder why you are so resistant to the notion of trust. If you doubt others' authenticity today, consider that you may simply not have enough information to effectively judge their characters or intentions. Remedying this can be as easy as opening up to those you must collaborate with so that they will be more likely to open up to you.

Unless we ask straightforwardly, we can never know the full extent of the convictions and values that guide others' interests or behaviors. This is why it is so easy to fall into the trap of doubt that causes us to distrust the authenticity of individuals in our immediate environment. However, we gain nothing when we are quick to judge these people harshly as they may have much to offer in the way of friendship, support, or advice. Instead of making assumptions, we should endeavor to ask others about the ideologies they embrace so we can know definitively whether they share at least some portion of our moral or ethical systems. When we do this, we discover that most people are more open-minded and interesting than we might otherwise believe them to be. You will gain a renewed faith in humanity today when you are frank in your curiosity regarding others.