Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Truth or trust and Tom Cruise's new film


"Knight & Day" will follow Tom Cruise's Milner, a secret agent who goes on a blind date with unlucky-in-love Cameron Diaz's June. Trapped in a journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source, they become fugitives and they must figure out whether to be guided by truth or trust. Directed by James Mangold, the action comedy movie is scheduled to be released on July 2, 2010. (Full story here)

I read this on one of my many Google alerts on truth and trust and thought this was interesting. What is suggested in the wording here is that there is a difference between truth and trust. In fact, they could be assumed here to be opposites.

Truth is as it suggests. We all want it, but sometimes it's confronting and it can hurt. Hiding from it is cowardice, and it gets you in the end!

Trust, on the other hand, from what I've found in the many times I talk with people about trust, is that it is often perceived as something you just do, blindly, with hope that all will be OK. That's what I call 'Blind Trust', but there is a better way to trust. Too many people blindly trust and don't take the time and take care to determine who and what to trust and when.

Blind trust most often leads to disappointment. Informed trust, brought about by understanding, is far less likely to cause the same level of disappointment and pain.

So, rather than deciding whether to choose truth or trust, choose both!


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