Give It a Chance

Past traumas projected forward into the future through one's own sense of - or lack of - trust and one's anticipations interact with others' projections, producing a present of its own. This present, which as it exists now, consists of a mutually reinforcing and interlocking web of bad faith, bad intentions, and bad anticipation; it obscures any sort of good faith or good will, which may hang in the air between peoples, as if in escrow, waiting for a mutual exchange of good to be restored.