Suspicion should not be the default setting for today's life!

I have just had a very interesting if not very uplifting experience this morning. I live in a small village and have taken my car for a service to a local garage. The garage is about a half mile outside the village along a now very busy and very fast rural road with no pavement.

As the day is a brilliant one, full of glorious sunshine and the promise of warmth and happiness I decided to walk back into the village. This is obviously not the "normal" thing to do. No-one it would seem voluntarily walks along this very busy road.

So as I was walking slowly along I was aware that I was getting a lot of suspicious looks from the passing motorists. A police car came past and also slowed down as if to make its own point of challenge as to why a stranger should be walking here!

To top it all I got chased by a snarling dog from one of the farms which backs on to the main road. Incredibly this dog was not chained up and not kept into the boundary of the premises.

Fortunately I had crossed the road at the point of hearing the warning barking and if it had not been for the width of the road the dog would have physically attacked me. I hurried on shocked and dismayed. The dog had obviously been trained to go ofter any "stranger".

My point here is something Bizzwork truly believes in...the speed of trust! Trust is a missing ingredient in our society. There are so many non PC rules and socially inhibiting regulations that are forcing us all to treat "strangers" i.e. anyone we don't know, as a bad thing, a pariah, a thing from another planet. All situations as a for instance, of where a man alone walking fills others with fear and suspicion.

It is a sad indictment of us all and I am saddened to the core by it . What would it be like if people started to have trust as their default? If we were to treat everyone with love, kindness and consideration? Don't you also wonder what that would be like?

Let us see the light instead of living in a progressive darkness of mistrust!