Suggestibility

I like being open-minded, but I wish I didn't believe people so easily. Gullible isn't quite the word, but it's the first one that comes to mind. "Too trusting" might be a better way to put it. It's not even that I just assume people are telling me the truth, it's just that without evidence to the contrary I see no reason to think otherwise. I just seem to give everything the benefit of the doubt, and sometimes I wish I didn't, it tends to make me rather easily manipulated. I can't help it though, I really have tried to be a skeptical person, but I just can't. I have to admit though, sometimes I'm glad not to be skeptical, it's part of why I learn and understand things so easily. I just wish it didn't make me so easily suggestible. That's why I have such a strong disdain for being lied to for any reason. But as I've always said, I'd rather be taken advantage of occasionally than end up not being there for someone who really needed me.