Trust..without it you have nothing!! Love people for who they are!
Trusting someone leaves you open to hurt even if they are just a friend. If you don't try you will never know though!! (and if my friend that doesn't have a profile is reading this..texting is not trying!! Inside joke from a few weeks ago! lol) Trust should be earned not handed out. If someone has a pattern of hurting you, don't subject yourself to more hurt. You can only control you and trust who you feel is worthy of your trust.
Everybody needs friends, but there are so many different levels of friends. There are those who have always always been there for you. There are those who pass through and we learn lessons from and then there are those who we are there for and never get anything in return. Regardless love people for who they are and be the friend you would always want in your life because the friends that are there for you and stay are the ones you should trust.
Sometimes it is really confusing and the only answer is to keep going and just to be you. The people who are supposed to be in your life will show up and stay. Trust your instincts because they are usually right. Have no expectations unless you are in a relationship with that person. You have to communicate them!! Assuming someone knows is never good!! Even with your friends, have no expectations because expectations can be crossed without even expressing to the other person what your expectations were because you didn't know you had them.
Live each day to the fullest, Love a lot but bring your brain with you! Sometimes you need to run the other way and sometimes you need to be there to see what happens.
All you can do is be an example of what you are looking for.