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Why is it so hard to trust?
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What does it feel like to trust?
I trust so few things in my life.
I would like to trust more.
This was the thought I had knocking around my head as I took an Amtrak train down from New York the other day. My boyfriend lives in the Bronx and normally we drive to each other during the pandemic but a combination of east coast winter storms and my schedule meant I had to brave public transportation for the first time in nearly a year.
But it wasn’t the thought of coronavirus that rattled me on the train. It was the self-observation of myself doing an automatic, unconscious, and relatively ridiculous behavior.
The conductor called the final station before DC, New Carollton, which is like a good 15 minutes away from DC’s train station. And yet, like an unthinking windup doll, with that announcement, I gathered all my things, took my…
