TRUSTWORTHY

When you put your trust in an individual, organization, or company, you believe they are honest and truthful.  Hopefully, you have listened to what they say, observed their behavior, then made your decision that they are trustworthy.

In personal relationships with family members, friends, or prospective mates, an emotional component may sway your opinion.  In professional relationships like with medical providers or financial planners, recommendations from others may be helpful.  Trusting organizations may be more complicated especially if your family has belonged to these groups and expect your loyalty.  Putting trust in political organizations has much to do with the trust you put in the politicians.  In general, trusting our country and our democracy will help continue our survival.

Most companies, we hope, are trustworthy, and safeguards are in place to help keep them honest; however, the responsibility lies in us to research their reputation and advertising.  The products and services they provide should be reliable. 

We also need to be trustworthy, honest, and reliable.  As we search for truth, we can build trust in others.    

IRL

In Real Life outside the digital world, face to face activities can include communication between two people or within a group, shopping in stores, playing physical sports, socializing at school and parties.  Imagine all the different ways we can interact without technology.

There must be advantages to avoid real life.  Perhaps it is faster, saves time, more controllable,  can be like a one way street where no one is gong the other way.  We text at our convenience at a time of our choosing maybe getting a quick reply, maybe not.  Now it's up to the other person to reply whereas face to face, the conversation immediately continues back and forth perhaps getting more complex even bringing up issues we don't want to discuss.

Online shopping can be faster, save time, done in our own home when we choose, often delivered the next day or so.  Of course while shopping, we can't touch the item, judge the quality or be sure of the fit, but we can always send it back.    

Playing video games in our own home takes much less time and effort than practicing a sport and participating on a team.  Interacting face to face is not necessary.  

Surely we can also see the disadvantages of not going into the real world.  Reducing real life conversations and learning situations can stunt our abilities.  Misunderstandings can develop.  Malls and shops are losing customers and money and then workers may lose their jobs or transfer to big warehouses.  Delivery trucks and cardboard boxes clutter our environment.  Gaming in our bedroom does not provide fresh air, exercise, or learning team work.

Try to spend more time and effort IRL.