Trust What?

I think you people don't understand what I'm trying to do here. So with that in mind, I'm always trying to simplify all of my arguments. You know, writing for those of you who can recite all of Biggies' rhymes, but can't the Homer. **If you think I mean the simpsons, please close your broser and head directly to your local library**

Today's discussion is simple. The Mac man has noticed there are two kinds of trust in the world. Type A is the traditional meaning of the word trust. Where someboday has your back, if they give you their word they will do an act, they do it. That person who you feel comfortable with, that tries to make you happy and looks out for your best interest as well as their own. We all got one of those friends, where if you really need something important, and if you need to keep it quiet, that first person you think of.

Type B is that person who you can trust to be exactly who they are. You know the kind of person I mean. That person who you know will get drunk and belligerent everytime you go out. Or that person who will always be late, overdressed, or moody. Somedays that person may be accountable and your dog, there for you in a pinch. However on most days they do the same things that they have always done, and won't really be of any service to you.

My question is, which of these people, person A or person B is better to have around. It's true, everybody wants a friend like person A, that person who really has your back when you are at your lowest point. But, when that person fails you, when you put all of your trust in them, and they let you down, the kind of pain that one feels in intolerable. Because to build that trust with person A, the really have that deep down trust, you have to give up part of yourself, must be vulnerable to that person occasionally. For, isn't that when trust is built, when one is down and out?

Yet person B, although they may never have your back when you need it, they will more than likely never let you down. You don't put as much faith in that person. More than likely, you don't even ask them to do anything outside of their character unless person A is out of town. Isn't the best kind of friend the one who will never let you down?

What kind of trust are you looking for? The kind where you can never get hurt, or the kind where you have to extend yourself into that uncomfortable range, inevitably to be let down?