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07:57pm 30/08/2006
 
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I found something I wrote a little while ago... while in Charette's class... I love this piece of writing for some reason.



The Three Dollar Fare (Some Thoughts on Trust)

The other day, in Interpersonal Skills, we played this game for bonus points called, "Taxi Taxi". The entire premise of this game is there are a bunch of taxi companies trying to get business and earn a profit. You can only charge two or three dollars for fare. The only way to make money with a three dollar fare is to all choose a three dollar fare. The only way to lose by making a two dollar bet is to all choose two dollars. Mathematically, you realize that a two dollar fare will always be your best choice, because you lose the lowest amount of money. However, every group figures that out...and before you know it, there's no way to really win.

Anyway, I just realized how much it sucks to be that group on the table placing the three dollar bet, being vulnerable to everyone else... everyone else who would place the two dollar bet so that way they can win while you ultimately lose.

If you take this game and apply it to the real world... think about how many three dollar fares you have placed for other people... think about the times when you've put yourself out there, made yourself vulnerable and trusting to another human being... for them to ultimately make your heart break with that two dollar fare.

It always sucks to put complete trust and faith into someone who is probably only out there to use you and manipulate you for their own personal gain. After getting burnt, it is so much harder to go out there and put yourself on the line.

It's much harder to feel as though you're being burnt by someone that you thought would never do such a thing to you, by someone you felt cared about you in an equal sense. Everyone out there has put themselves on a limb... It's hard to constantly put yourself out there, only to be cut down to the very bottom of the tree. However, it just seems like it's a part of life... having the ability to fail and get back up and try again.

Sometimes, I wonder why we all act the way that we do. Why do we always have to act defensive, instead of being out there and compromising? Why must we string people along and use them for amusement? Why can't we realize that other people are people too...with emotions...just like our own?

It's very hard to forgive people, but at the same time, it's very hard to want to hold them accountable for awful actions. I want to see the good in everyone, I want to have that three dollar fare. Hopefully, we can all start to trust a little more, backstab a little less. That would be wonderful.		  
     

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