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EPOCH · 2023
- Lv2
- Ts
- Cg
- Yb
Ride or Die
Trust is the operating condition, each one's guard lowered because the other has never once left.
Trust
Provisional Open
EXTREME
RARE
LOW-MID · Liminal
Guard lowered deliberately, with the reason for the guard still intact. Trust is a decision to act as though the risk has been accepted. Certainty about the other person never enters into it. The risk stays where it was.
The word
Old Norse traust, confidence, shelter; usually traced to the same ancient root as true and tree, a word for what is firm and solid. The metaphor never left: something to lean on that will hold weight. English has used it for the feeling and for the legal arrangement alike since the Middle Ages, assets placed in another's hands.
The feeling
Guard lowered on purpose, with the reasons for the guard still known. The shoulders and the voice unclench in the other person's presence; contingency planning, the background tax of every interaction, quietly stops billing. It wears certainty and is actually a decision: the risk is still there and has been accepted. Its size is only visible when it breaks.
Against its neighbours
Hope projects a good outcome without evidence; trust extends one to a specific person, with the option of being wrong made peace with in advance. Surrender yields everything at once; trust yields by degrees, and keeps the record.
In the work
An unprotected posture in an environment that has not been established as safe. The exposure is visible and the figure holds it.
1 work composed with Trust
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