The whole working together to accomplish something great. Each doing our own part, and later reuniting to fit it together to attain that ideal assignment.
Trust.
It always comes back to this!
You see, in a group project not only do you depend on your partner(s) to do their part, but they depend on you. Often you are with others whom you barely know. You are unaware of their past group-projects experiences. No, instead you are thrown into such a situation left only with faith
Faith that they will perform their tasks up to your standards (and vice-versa of course), faith that they will research properly, faith that they will actually show up on the day you are presenting (because group projects all-too-often go hand in hand with presentations).
It's all just too risky. You are so vulnerable placing that trust on the shoulders of another. This isn't a minor deal, this could be your degree we're talking about here!
~for even the sturdiest ground can shift and can tremble and let us fall~
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A simple answer might be that, unless you take the purely Stoic approach to life (in which you would expect nothing of anything that lies outside of your person and control), anything you do will be due to an uncertain fortune of relying upon others and circumstance, both of which lie beyond one's control. Hence, most elements of human affairs return to trust, at times more willing, or else more uncertain.
So yes, it must, so long as you deal with other people on the basis of requiring something of them.
All the same, best not take it to an extreme, and look to the benefits inherent. For as in democracy, which is the inherent trust in the mass over the potential failure of the individual, this same system of trust will safeguard you in case you yourself are not able to fully accomplish what you would like in a project.
However, I will say that the vulnerability is not so great as you take it. Often the vulnerability we see in a circumstance is because we approach it with an incomplete understanding of ourselves and our own part, and as such it is ignorance rather than knowledge that instils in us a fear of vulnerability. For example, you speak in hyperbolic terms that your degree is on the line. This is hardly the case. No group project has such heavy weight that it might too greatly affect that outcome, not unless you already stand upon that knife-edge of failure. And if one has, by their own choices, made themselves to stand there, their vulnerability in the situation, and failure at the hands of others, can hardly be ascribed too greatly to those others. To dance with someone along the edge of a cliff might be a perilous walk of trust, but it is one's own choices that place them there.
I doubt that you have set yourself into such peril. Be secure to know that you are not so greatly in the power of others as you might suppose, and that your own decisions still hold the chief sway over your own ends.
To sum, the ground can shake, but you will only stumble and fall if you have not made certain your own stance.
k i wish...k maybe not but you know what i mean...you know i was going to say something...but i've completely lost the appetite to do any such thing...LadyC some peoples are just morons...and don't understand that their actions (or lack there of) have consequences on you...they think it's no big deal but they're completely wrong...
and obviously some people just don't get that and decide to be scholastic instead of realistic about it...i wonder what shade of glasses those would be...hmm i guess i did want to say something lol
take it easy LadyC...i'm always here to pick you up
It seems some people also don't seem to understand sarcasm... or when to leave well enough alone
and i see his glasses as not just rose coloured, but completely opaque
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