I think we can all agree that trust and respect are EXTREMELY important when it comes to interacting with the world around us. Both virtues play key roles in building positive relationships but I believe that they should be approached in competely different ways. 

When it comes to trust, I've embodied the statement, "guilty until proven innocent." This meaning that your deep, core level trust shouldn't be handed out willy nilly - it should be given to those who earn it. I'm not saying that we should be skeptical or suspicious of every single person we meet (because that's toxic and exhausting). But I AM saying that we should value our trust and do our best to ensure that whoever we give it to has our best interest in mind. 

In regards to respect, I believe it should be given to each person we come into contact with! If we were to all have very surface-level mutual respect for one another, we could essentially ensure that "Karen" incidents never happen again! Trust and respect are the key components in creating a world that we can all be proud of while furthering our progress towards an empathetic society.