Gullible or Cautious

I've been thinking lately how life where i come from has made people so cautious with everything they do. Cautious of how they speak and how they sound when they speak. cautious of every move, every gesture, every look... Cautious of petty much everything!

I've visited a friend in the Middle East a couple of years ago. We went out together. And while we left the car to enter one of the shops i tucked my handbag under the car seat. She looked at me in wonder.
"What are you doing?" she asked me so innocently!!
So i so confidently replied " im hiding my bag so no one would break you car window to take it or something!"
Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. "No one will do that!!"

Wow... look how life has made me and how life made her!
I never thought that i feel insecure where i live... but these petty things were just gestures of caution. But there where she came from... these cautious moves werent even on her mind... I loved it!

But after a while i thought... caution could sometimes be better in life as a general rule. Living where i am made me always think twice when people speak to me. Made me read between the lines as an automatic reflex and made it so easy and simple for me to spot a fraud and a sincere person. The difference between them to me is like day and night.( Ofcourse anywhere else but here since we have proffessionals)

For a minute i felt that if i lived where she did i would feel so gullible if i move anywhere else.

Even thought i'm the kind of person who initially trusts everyone's good intentions i can still spot the bad ones most of the time... and that REALLY doesnt work where i come from but then again it works everywhere else! :)

Sometimes i watch my friends listen to some people speak of a subject that seems so fake to me... yet they look so amazed and so trusting and so.... Gullible!

Is it me or is it something that any normal person would see through !?

I dont know but anyway... i prefer being too cautious than a little naive!