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Trust — You’ve Got No Choice

Lucas A. Davidson
2 min readJan 31, 2025

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Daily Meditation 1,062–1/31/2025

A simple DM we’ve written about a few times. Perhaps I’ll even write more tomorrow too!

Here’s the deal: you’ve got no choice EXCEPT to trust.

When you’re driving down the road and a car is passing you 10mph faster and sort of bobbing back and forth as if they’re texting, what do you do?
Well, probably slow down a little, pay very close attention to them and give them a wide berth.

But can you make them pay more attention? Put the phone down (if that’s even it)? Go back in time to leave a minute earlier or later?
No, nope, and probably not.

You can manage yourself and trust them.

When you’re climbing on a plane to fly to Croatia for a beach trip, stomach in knots, anxiety higher than the plane will be, what can you do?
Sure, you can take a sleeping med or anxiety medication.

Can you manage the pilots? Can you teleport instead? Can you give it all up and just stay home (again)?

Nope, lol no, and really?

You can trust the pilots.

In both situations, you can ONLY trust.

And there are so many situations in life such as this where “only” trusting is your “only” choice.

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Lucas A. Davidson
Lucas A. Davidson

Written by Lucas A. Davidson

Daily philosophical meditations on Eudaimonia. These are distillations from the forthcoming book on the topic. Comments or jobs: lucas@multistatewide.com

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