Apprehensive

Why do most people start by being apprehensive?

I notice that most people do not welcome people they do not know with a sincere smile and tend to start the relationship with much apprehension and  pessimism.
Why is that?
Is it that they have gotten burned in the past and or lied to?
Dis they get hurt by trusting too much?
Either way it is sad that because of past actions we do not start every encounter more positive.
We should embrace those we meet and pull them in not push them away.

Some may feel that they simply do not need more friends or cannot be bothered.
Again it is a loss because the more we know about a person the more we connect, we all have commonality and overall want the same thing.

Try to not bring your past negative experience along with you, remember that they all lessons.
Good or bad it is all part of the ride.

Give a sincere smile and handshake next time you meet a stranger, be the first to extend the olive branch, you just me surprised.