`Even I don’t trust myself.`
~Ben
`I don’t trust anyone.`
~Landy
During our breakfast at McDonald’s that morning, the old Filipino man pretty much took control of the conversation. He was seated to my eleven o’clock direction with his wife sitting in front of him. Maw was to my left and Paw was sitting front of me.
The first quote was by that old man that morning. He said it with his usual off hand remarks and a smile of enjoyment each time. The second quote was by an ugly man long ago. He said it with his usual stammer and rapid-fire speech patter and a smile full of buckteeth.
I’ve learned from these two people and other people with horror stories of being taken advantaged of by ill-intentioned parasites. People shouldn’t trust anyone, not even self. But we have to trust someone; otherwise we would be dead from suspicion, a paranoia of war with self and others.
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