Trust & Gullibility

Hello. If I were insanely clever, I would have devised some trick for you to all laugh at after you got over believing it, which would have probably taken about two seconds, max. As it is, I'm not one for fooling others. In fact, quite often I'm the fool, which brings me to my main point: I hate today!!

I positively lose on April Fool's Day. I dread this day every year. Going into today, I was totally aware of the fact that many would be trying to pull pranks, and so I steeled myself in anticipation of these tricks. But I have an amazingly short memory span, and so by the time first period was over I had almost completely forgotten the day. In second period, we sang to someone whose birthday really wasn't today, although being the trusting person I am (most of the time), I congratulated her on turning 16, and I even remember commenting on how funny it was that her birthday was April Fool's Day. How dumb can I get.

Apparently I can get pretty dumb. During third period, I truly believed (for probably the longest period of time out of anyone) that we would have to fly to California next week, which freaked me out because I really hate flying. After about five minutes of this, my friend asked in a concerned tone, "You do know it was just a joke, right?" :P

And a classic: At lunch today, one of my friends had a whole package of Oreos. In case it wasn't unusual enough that they came from his History class, he offered me two. I only took one, though, since I wasn't that hungry. I held onto it while I ate my sandwich; after a while, he and a few others were staring at me, and he asked, "Well aren't you going to eat it?" After I finished my sandwich, sheesh! Everyone knows you're supposed to eat dessert after a meal. So I took a small bite of the Oreo...and good thing it was only small. There was something unusual about the taste. Something minty...And then I recognized the flavor, at about the same time I noticed everyone was staring at me, trying not to laugh. Although by this point I'd realized I'd been tricked, I continued to nibble the cookie. No one was trying to hold in their laughter anymore, and I told him, "You know what, when you wipe the toothpaste off, it still tastes pretty good." After this, I got up to wander the school for a hiding place from the jokes.

So what is the difference between being trusting and being gullible? Well, gullible is being easily deceived or cheated. Trusting is having a firm reliance in something or someone. Both words share the synonym "naive". Naivete is innocence, or showing a lack of experience. But I've been tricked so many times in the past and I still don't seem to have learned. So does that make me gullible or too trusting?