its never that simple

so how do you know when you are being played for a fool and when someone is genuine? i think that sometimes it is not so easy to make that determination. i have to wonder if it is really that hard in life to know when someone is being real. is it just that you have to believe and you have to be hopeful? when though does that turn from hope to being naive? for me i think that i am a hopeless optimist. i would rather look at a person and see them for what they can do than what they have done in the past. i don't believe that we are martyrs to our past. i think that you must grow but during the process of growing you should try and always be true to yourself.