Trust
In
my final piece discussing eudaimonia, I will discuss the topic trust and how I incorporate
this term into true happiness and growth. When one finally sees something that
they would like to accomplish, whether that’s a painting, a relationship, or a
race, that have to put trust themselves that it will work. This version of
trust also coincides with confidence. You have to trust yourself that you will
do great in whatever you aim to do-that’s step one anyway. Without trusting
yourself and having lack of confidence will show and will discourage others
from seeing the true potential that you have in yourself.
For
example, when you’re in a relationship with someone one of the first things
that each party has to establish trust. When you establish this trust, you’re
setting boundaries and “missions” that you hope the other person will be able
to succeed. Once you have built that trust, then you realize you have grown as a
person because you have let someone in and they either accomplished the mission
or let you down-either way it goes, you’ve grown from the experience.
Another
example would be doing academic school work. When you have trust in yourself
and you know that you know the knowledge of what your teacher has been teaching,
then it will reflect on our grade. I personally have seen a person rarely or
never study but because they have trust and confidence within themselves, they
passed the test, or the class. It doesn’t make sense to take in knowledge
period whether or just life lessons and not have trust that you won’t either
fall into the same steps or do better. Trust is the key ingredient in what makes
a person love themselves and are happy themselves. If you can’t trust yourself
then who can you trust? In eudaimonia, you
have to grow, trust yourself to grow and it’ll happen.
One of my favorite movie lines, from the fictional aging minor leaguer "Crash" Davis in the film "Bull Durham":
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Or as Henry Thoreau said, "Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams..."