Gold and Trust

The worth of trust is equivalent to gold. A trustworthy man is a beloved man that is able to win over everyone's heart without much a problem. You cannot earn that by offering gold to everyone. Some might like to befriend with you simply because of the offering of gold or money. This relationship, however is short lived and would not last longer as it can. While a gold can buy you any material need or even companion, the trust cannot be converted to monetary return. The trust, however will help to fulfill your spiritual engagement and of course earn respect from others, not only for yourself but also your family. Hence, trustworthy is important and pre-requisite in our life.

It is fine for having the gold and trust. For businessman, it simply means they are making money with ethic and good deed. For general public, it means earning a living with dignity. It becomes a crisis when you have to make a choice between gold and trust. You are required to choose either gold or trust such as cheating people by earning the money or providing empty promise in return for love or financial gain.

While everyone will prioritise the trust over gold, in reality we are surrounded by many people who do not mind to sacrify their trustwortiness for own self-interest. This trend is compounded by the individual urge for success in life, peer pressure to do better, family expectation to earn higher than the neighbours, collegues to compete with each others and the fear of losing their advantages due to the competitive world we are living in now. The practice of using GDP and physical measurement for quality of life is not helping either. We tend to compare with each others based on material gain and not how happy we are. Perhaps the happiness index as applied by some countries should be adopted widely and extensively.