#realiability

There are 2 types of people. People who are surprisingly reliable, and people who are surprisingly unreliable.

We all evaluate and then classify each person's reliability in relation to ourselves. For instance, how likely that person would be willing to help you in a dire situation or if that person would ever just utterly forget about engagements and do whatever they want despite promises.

Tonight I've realized that those evaluations change. They change the most when we turn out to be wrong. When we group some individuals as only somewhat reliable while giving too much reliability to others.

So today, I found out a couple of people I can learn to rely on more. They decided to stick with me despite my own belief that I would be left completely alone. After all, they didn't need to do that. It was a wonderful surprise. One that I'm very thankful for.

However others have been both shockingly and un-shockingly unreliable. I've noted that maybe I need to put less faith in them, to have less expectations, and to expect more disappointments.

I don't even know why I'm disappointed. I should have predicted this. They've done this more than once before, so this clearly means they can do it again. I should have expected this degree of "not-caring," yet then again it's not like I wasn't exactly aware. I just expected the better in people... too bad... What was surprising was just how sudden it was, and I never thought this would happen today.