That can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, though. There are people out there that don’t have malicious purposes, but if you’re always watching and waiting for the moment they “turn,” you can start to see it happening in things they do, say, and don’t say, when whatever it actually is is completely innocent. I’ve been guilty of that many times.

This same thing applies to many similar assumptions, too. I’ve come to expect nothing of people at all, and that has improved things tremendously for me. I mean, it may have made me a little numb emotionally, but so far that hasn’t been as bad as the loneliness was.

(As far as trust goes, I only truly trust one of my friends, and even then, only so far. Trust is difficult for me.)