Betrayal - I won't and you shouldn't

It's said to never say never so on that account, there are a good number of things that I wouldn't just do. Especially if it's within my capacity to ensure that I don't.

There's no doubt that mistakes happen, we act out of anger or might find ourselves in threatening situations whereby we have no other option than to go against our morals and in severe cases, to save ourselves from impending danger and that is definitely not a problem to me.

But when a misdeed was a pure intent of the doer, we all know better than to simply brush it aside.

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One of those deeds for me is betraying the trust of another and mind you, it can be in different forms. Either being disloyal in a relationship, backbiting, spilling out others' trusted secrets, lying to a close one for no tangible reason, absconding with someone else's resources entrusted in your hands....... and the list goes on.

I'm someone who tries my best to maintain a good relationship with everyone I come across and wishes to relate with me. If you've made it into my friend zone, then I don't hesitate to look out for you, be there when you need it, aid you in any ways I can and give you the respect you deserve.

To someone I regard as a friend, I also believe I have this privilege and freedom with you that makes it easy for me to open up to you about anything that might have been eating me up.

In the same vein, I hate giving people reasons to have mixed feelings on whether to tell me about some certain things or entrust me with their possessions and the like. And for that, I endeavour to make myself reliable enough for all who I've gained their trust to feel at home and be themselves around me.

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Few years back, my friend and I exchanged our little secrets; she told me hers and I did the same with the both of us promising not to say a word of it to a third party.
Currently, we're miles apart and not even as close as we were then but her secret???.......... still very safe with me.

Even when I come across people who share their stories with me and it turns out to be similar to her secret, all I do is to make a reference as vague as possible just to let the person know that he or she isn't the only one going through such.

I can't tell if my friend had at one point in time spilled my secret but I'm sincerely hoping she hasn't.

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Gaining someone's trust takes a very long process. From hi's and hello's to bits of conversations here and there, then much more times together. Each of these moments and actions are just like droplets of water forming the ocean of trust.

Ironically, shattering and losing someone's trust is as easy as reciting the alphabets and happens at the snap of a finger. And I will do everything within my power to avoid being on the delivering end of it.

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I'm inviting @mhizdiamond and @youngezeblinzz to participate in the prompt here.

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