Believe who people show you they are...?

Today was sort of uneventful. Had a meeting in the morning and basically spent the afternoon running errands and getting other work done. I was pretty productive. But something small stuck out to me today...

Without sharing all unnecessary details, someone said that their old roommate always used to tell them, "Believe who people show you that they are."

I thought about that for a minute and let it pass. But now I'm drawn back to it as I write here. I think it's hard for me to distinguish between who people are showing me they are and basing my belief or opinion of them on my past experiences. Is it really possible to completely believe who people are showing you they are without taking anything else into account? I'm not so sure. I think experience has a lot to do with how we perceive people and the way we interact with them. Maybe I'm wrong. I just don't think it's possible to leave everything else out and simply believe who people are, based solely on what they show you.What does that say about me? Maybe that I don't give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe that I don't trust people. Maybe that I put too much weight on experiences and past "stuff" when relating to people and thinking about things. Maybe that other people believe and trust too quickly. I guess it could mean a lot of things, just kinda throwing things out there I suppose.

I feel like I end most posts with more questions than answers. I have more thoughts and "maybes" and "what ifs" than I started with. I guess that's a good thing? It's a process and I'm not sure if we ever reach the point of fully arriving. The questions keep us seeking, and the answers we may find draw us back to our questions where we discover more of the unknown and we keep asking. I'm not sure if we ever get out of this cycle, maybe some of us will. But, how do we ever really know...well, anything? Questions aren't always bad, sometimes they are annoying because it seems like they never stop coming or they are never fully answered.