innocence in a dangerous world

its hard being a young girl in a cruel and wicked world. at what point does a young girl realize the world isn't inherently good and is actually filled with more bad, demented, and evil people than honest genuine folk. it's a hard pill to swallow. i'm unrelentingly gullible and try to see the best in people. i give everyone chances because i'm conditioned to believe this is a good world filled with good people. so i'm more likely to get scammed, abused, and tricked. i hate that i have to be so gullible and believing, but what i hate even more is that i have to teach myself to see the world as it is, a wasteland. and that i have to see people as the scum that they are when i really dont want to. in this day and age with trump as president again, women and gays losing their human rights laws, fires burning down socal, and all the bullshit inbetween, how do we navigate sanity through all the terrible stressors going down around us.recent;y a friend from rehab offered to tattoo me if i drove over to his house to hang out with him and his wife. i was glad to because he said it's for free however i soon found out that they wanted me to pay with my body. i almost went before i figured it out. i believed them. until they started getting dirty and trying to lure me in. who knows what would've happened if i actually went. they could've been apart of something bad and i would've been the victim. now i know that people aren't always what they seem. but i'm scared to see the world as bad because i don't want to lose my shimmer of hope that love will win in the end. i've heard that love is the cause for the greatest evil but it's also responsible for it's greatest good. so what's the consensus? i don't know. i'm just a girl i don't have all the answers. i just hope for the best, and it's my greatest downfall.