Quote of the Day - 5 August

Today's quote is hardly poetic but it was the first quote I thought of when I woke up this morning. I didn't think of it for this blog. It just literally popped into my head. The part of it that popped into my head I'll put in bold, but I've got the whole relevent quote in there.

From Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl..

Gibbs: He was Captain of the Black Pearl
Will: What? He failed to mention that.
Gibbs: Well, Jack plays things closer to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything’s an equal share. That should mean the location of the treasure, too, so Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he’d gone mad with the heat.

I've blogged many times about trust. That's probably because the ability to trust is something I've struggled with for many, many months now. I've been burned by someone I trusted - a few times this year. Too many times, in fact. And I don't think the key to that is to simply not trust at all anymore. But I just need to be smarter about whom I trust and how quickly I will trust them.

The way I see it, playing things close the vest is still playing, innit?