No, we cannot blame the Internet; the Internet itself is a wonderful invention. It is the people who are the problems.
After two years of what I thought was a special and wonderful friendship, I have now lost a friend.
For two years we shared our lives, good times and bad times, as friends should with each other. I have cried many times together with her when she was sad; I have lit candles for her when she was ill or beset what seemed to be impossible problems.
Today, my friend has cheated me, after two years of doing everything to gain my utter confidence, so that later she can get my bank details and steal money from my account.
Is there really a true friend in this world, I cannot help keep asking myself?
And yet, I am certain that there are good people too in this world. Besides, we have to trust some people; we cannot go on with our lives without trusting no one at all – we need people to buy our food from and for our clothes; people to give us a job and for many other things; we need to trust doctors and teachers for our kids.
We have to trust someone to get married to. Marriage is a great and important part of our lives – our parents cannot live for ever and when they are gone, if we are married or have a partner, we would have a companion for the rest of our lives and perhaps a family of our own too.
But unfortunately, many people find, years later, that they cannot trust their partner any longer; they are perhaps alcoholic, gay, or violent.
How can we be sure that the person we get involved with, either as a partner, or just as a friend, we can really trust? That is a very difficult question indeed……
France Chorley
