True vs. I believe

It takes years to build trust and a few moments of folly to break it, they say. But life leads me to believe otherwise. There are situations in life when you trust somebody because your heart wants to. As easily as we indulge in impulsive buying, we often make the dart into placing our faith on people. Sometimes we do not trust what is true, but what we want to believe is true. Often judgement and bias become the basis of analysing what is true versus what I believe is true. The same judgement takes over in retaining your faith on what you believe to be true even when circumstances indicate otherwise. But does this assure an absence of doubt? Not always. The situations that crop up to challenge your faith may lose the battle to your will to retain your faith, but it nevertheless leaves traces of doubt. Doubts on your better judgement. Doubts about your faith. And doubts about everything you believed to be true.