Reflective Essay about Trust

📌Category: Experience, Life, Myself
📌Words: 436
📌Pages: 2
📌Published: 26 January 2022

After spending the last several years of my life as a competitive dancer, I have heard the word “trust” thousands of times. 

Choreographers like to say “just trust me,” with a grin on their face when they know the concept or idea they have for a piece may seem silly, out of the box, or simply impossible to my teammates and I at first glance. 

“You have to trust each other,” my teachers say to us when rehearsing a group dance. We know it’s true, as we have seen first hand the harmonious masterpiece that comes together on stage when we do, and the messy collage that falls apart when we don’t.

Often the last two words I hear before performing a solo is, “trust yourself.” I find the phrase comforting as it is coming from the mouths of those who have seen both my highest and lowest points as a dancer. 

Nevertheless, I find that trust is difficult to achieve, and I’m not only speaking from a dancer’s point of view, it is challenging from any angle. Agreeing to trust is like signing a contract, and in the fine print vulnerability and complete honesty are expected in exchange. How can I ever be sure that those who I am supposed to trust are worth trusting? How can I ever trust myself when I have experienced the consequences of the times I have let myself down? What if I do trust, and it backfires?

I have battled with those questions for the majority of my life, and the fight has turned me into a human oxymoron. I want to be fiercely independent, but never be forced to brave the troubles life throws at me alone-- it’s quite an exhausting mindset. 

Despite my conflicting feelings, each day, I am finding that it is more freeing to take the risk of trust rather than to distrust, and life can be so much more beautiful when you do so. Just as I have learned to trust my teammates, I can trust that most people in life are trying their best and have love to offer to those who open themselves up. Before I step onstage to compete my solo, I can build trust in myself by remembering my hardwork in class and the practices leading up to the performance. My quality of being hardworking is one that I can apply to any aspect of my life, which allows trust in myself to come easier. 

Finally, I know that we are all flawed humans, so inevitably there will be times when I break others’ trust, and times when they break mine. While each day I strive to be true to myself, there will be times when I betray my own trust. Regardless of that fact, I can trust that every obstacle in life has a purpose.

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