I am not able to answer the question in the title since I am not a trustable person. If I were you, I wouldn’t trust me at all. See, although I am not a bad person and I wouldn’t even hurt a fly, you shouldn’t trust me for an extended period of time.

Problem delimitation
I have the following problem: I am willing to give my full support to anyone if I feel like they deserve it. Unfortunately for a large amount of individuals, at the slightest sign of failure of communication I am going to refrain from helping them.

There were times when I used to say “Trust noone but yourself”. Times have change though, I realised that I have a few friends (literally, “few”) and that we will be helping eachother no matter what happens or how far away we might be. Therefore, I have changed my motto to “Trust everyone but count only on a few persons in life” and I am willing to go all the way with it, no matter what.

“What the hell are you talking about?”
I honestly have no idea where the idea of this article started from and I have no idea where it’s going to. I just want to make you, the reader, acknowledge who your friends are and to value them as much as possible. Be careful though, don’t go in too deep unless you are 100% sure about their attitude towards you. There are few things more painful in life than being back stabbed by someone who you thought was a friend of yours.

How do I do it?
I simply don’t do it. Except my family, there might be at most 4 or 5 persons in the entire world (literally, again) whom I can trust with my life. Don’t get a bad impression about me and my attitude towards the people I know: I am willing to have new friends… it’s just that sometimes you win a friend but lose another one (I won one friend and lost around 10 in the past year but that’s a completely different story). It’s all a huge vicious circle, very hard to get out of.

Conclusion
Bottom line: Trust is something which should be offered after a period of time. Never start with the assumption that the person next to you is not worthy of your trust; just try to be more reluctant into giving it and everything will be OK if you consider the only 2 outcomes this attitude could have:

• That person is NOT worthy of your trust(to be your friend). You haven’t given him trust so you didn’t lose anything. No pains, no worries.
• That person is worthy of your trust and after some period of time you realize that the two of you are friend. Everything is alright so enjoy each others company.

The end. If you didn’t understand anything, it’s all because of my tiredness.