Trust is a quality taught to us at a young age. As children, we are taught to trust our parents and other adults we know very well. While growing up and maturing, we learn who we truly can and cannot trust on our own. The idea of trust is sometimes a hard one to grasp because it is the full reliance on someone else that you may, or may not know. Trust can be defined as being able to rely on the integrity, strength, ability, and surety of a person or thing. Overall, trust is having a great amount of confidence in a person or thing; there are multiple ways to display trust.

After Ben’s unexplainable aneurysm, he was left feeling helpless. His mom had just told him that the trauma to his brain had damaged his optic nerve and he was going to lose complete vision in both eyes within the month. Ben was only eighteen years old and had a bright future ahead of him playing on the University of Tennessee’s basketball team next season. He felt so many emotions at once. He was truly at a loss for words. His mom tried to comfort him as tears began slowly trickling down his colorless face. She knew that her strong-willed son would not give up on his life long dream of becoming a …show more content…
Ben trusted Lola to lead him to a seat in class. If Ben did not trust Lola in this aspect, his stubbornness could have prevailed resulting in him standing in some or all of his classes for four years. He also trusted Lola to guide him to the correct dorm room in his building. In the same way, Lola trusted Ben. In all reality Lola had the hard job, but Ben had to gain Lola’s trust as well. Lola trusted that Ben would provide food and water for her when she needed it. She also relied on Ben to bathe her and keep her clean. Even though Lola had to guide them, she trusted that Ben would take her on a walk everyday for exercise. Ben and Lola displayed examples of trust everyday, multiple times a