Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?

Who do I trust? Do I even trust anyone? What have they done to earn it?
Yes. I trust someone, someone that I love. And when you love someone, you’ll give them everything you have and can give… hugs and kisses, time and space, sweet words and bad words, night stories and nonsense stories, patience and impatience, understanding and misunderstanding, hopes and worries, everything including trust. I gave him these, and he gave me these.

If trust has to be earned, how do you earn it? I guess it is by doing something that would make you trustworthy, to the littlest things like keeping a secret to the biggest like taking good care of the most fragile thing in this world, a heart. If I tell you a secret then that means I already trust you because for now it’s uncertain that you would keep it. The same holds true with the heart. Only time would tell. But at first, it was simply a matter of faith. And through time, only one of two things will happen: you earn it or you lose it.