Walls, Barriers, Partitions, Enclosures

Sometimes we put up these things not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

Why we put our guards up?

We usually trust people easily. When someone looks you in the eyes and tell you something, you automatically believe them. This is because we often entrust simple tasks that accumulate throughout time which accumulate exponentially. Gaining someone's trust is an arduous endeavour to accomplished. And if someone gain your trust, it makes you vulnerable, it makes your weak, basically giving them the ability to hurt you. Traumatic experiences molds oneself, and at times it changes us forever. The world is unfair and full of challenges, depression is among us, it devours our morale and cripple our spirits. Although having harsh experiences and let down from several people, no one should give up in trusting others. Its a testament of faith in humanity. Yes, believing that someone will keep you safe exposes you. It makes you vulnerable, in this dire times we see the people who truly deserve the trust we gave on them, they protect, strengthen us, most importantly they make us feel secure.

Personally, giving it all doesn't make any sense anymore, having low expectations yields so much more relief in life. Keeping my walls up makes more sense, because in the grand scheme of things, the feeling of security makes you more stronger. In my philosophy, engaging and immersing yourself to various people can certainly in someway, shape or form can inadvertently influence you. Thus, I limit my exposure to people, due to the fact that I define my standards on people I want to cope with, personalities who I believe that can be beneficial to myself. Yes, its true that you'll never learn anything unless you let someone teach you, in reality we meet and socialize, no man is an island perse. Yet having the power or capability to select the people who can mentor, mold, and teach you is much more beneficial, rather than struggle in life gaining experience points in the mistakes of your contemporaries and acquaintances. Also, there is an undeniable fact that its our instinct that define the people we choose to cope with, more often these subjective selection is defined by our way of life, profession and passion with the consideration of course of external factors such as our status in the society, and perception of others towards us..