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Trusting them with what, really?
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I meant trusting them with your emotions, thoughts, and especially if you feel that the relationship with this person has potential and are more free with the information you share. But at times people will turn out to be someone you don't expect in that case you have no one to blame but yourself for your blunder if they ever use that information against you and you end up being hurt by it.
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Letting go of peoples' reactions. I've been trying to try that on for size today and it's going ok. I feel "lighter" if that makes any sense. I don't feel burdened (at least, not as much as before) by what people perceive my intentions or my actions to mean in response to something they say to me. I just don't care at some level, but a part of me wants to care. Without caring can you ever feel pain? Without pain can you ever truly understand and be appreciative of the good?
So I guess this level of unattachment means also...not caring? I still have this desire to form a connection with people. Are you saying that letting go if this desire to connect with people will paradoxically help me succeed in connecting with people, instead of actively trying to?
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I don't need to trust people. I trust myself. I trust myself to gain the respect I need to do what I want to do, and no more.
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Turning attention away from people and your reactions to them means turning your attention to yourself. I think this concern with your self is healthy and not a form of conceitedness.