I. Um. Have no way to contact Ken and barely knew him even when we were both in Ring. Therefore I question the feasibility of that particular suggestion. I also question whether I would be nervy enough to go through with it: I found Ken rather intimidating when I knew him in Ring, and that impression has not gone away.
I admit that I'm inexperienced in the arena of human relations, and perhaps I've been gulled, and perhaps Maestro doesn't even know he's setting me up for a fall. While I've had my trust in another (who it was does not matter) shattered pretty thoroughly in the past, it's possible I'm too quick to trust someone who gives several hours' worth of unexpected, voluntary kindness, and gives the appearance of liking and respect.
Perhaps I've simply never seen anything that could allow me to believe my trust in this particular situation is unwarranted.
Perhaps our situations are significantly different. I don't know. What I do know is what I've seen and experienced, and if you know something that may change my mind or prompt me to think more for myself, well, as I said, this is the wrong place for it, but my email inbox is open.
Part of where we differ here, I think, is not only in our opinions of how trustworthy one man in particular is, but also whether or not humans in general can ever be completely trustworthy to one other person, or whether complete trust will always end in misery for the trusting fool.
I personally prefer to stick to my belief that people basically want to be good, and that trusting somebody (making sure they know you trust them) will tend to make them more trustworthy, while distrusting someone (again, assuming they know) will tend to make them less worthy of trust.
So we could get into a philosophical argument on the nature of humanity and trust(worthiness), or we could speak in further vague terms about one man's trust-breaking or lack thereof, or you could let me know what it is that makes you inclined to label Maestro a fair-weather friend, or some other thing could happen, or nothing. Which shall it be, eh?
I admit that I'm inexperienced in the arena of human relations, and perhaps I've been gulled, and perhaps Maestro doesn't even know he's setting me up for a fall. While I've had my trust in another (who it was does not matter) shattered pretty thoroughly in the past, it's possible I'm too quick to trust someone who gives several hours' worth of unexpected, voluntary kindness, and gives the appearance of liking and respect.
Perhaps I've simply never seen anything that could allow me to believe my trust in this particular situation is unwarranted.
Perhaps our situations are significantly different. I don't know. What I do know is what I've seen and experienced, and if you know something that may change my mind or prompt me to think more for myself, well, as I said, this is the wrong place for it, but my email inbox is open.
Part of where we differ here, I think, is not only in our opinions of how trustworthy one man in particular is, but also whether or not humans in general can ever be completely trustworthy to one other person, or whether complete trust will always end in misery for the trusting fool.
I personally prefer to stick to my belief that people basically want to be good, and that trusting somebody (making sure they know you trust them) will tend to make them more trustworthy, while distrusting someone (again, assuming they know) will tend to make them less worthy of trust.
So we could get into a philosophical argument on the nature of humanity and trust(worthiness), or we could speak in further vague terms about one man's trust-breaking or lack thereof, or you could let me know what it is that makes you inclined to label Maestro a fair-weather friend, or some other thing could happen, or nothing. Which shall it be, eh?
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