Craigslist and selling stuff

Somehow I am not comfortable with random people contacting me to buy my things. How can I trust these people won't take all my money? How can I trust these people period? That is why I look to people I know to trove on the fruits of my buying... Did that make sense? I trust people who I've actually had physical contact with or people I know have has physical contact with. And I've had great success! You know how I was trying to sell my iPad mini, my iPod shuffle and my digital camera? Well I sold them all today!  Not for the price I would have preferred but you have to be open to negotiation especially in this economy. I am super pumped. Selling things you don't need is very liberating! I have a few big items like my long board, my bike and my iPhone that need to go.  The amount I pay for this phone is just ridiculous. Even though I use it all the time, I use it for mostly useless things.  There really is no need for it.  Except for the music aspect but I can listen to the radio. Maybe I shouldn't have gotten rid of my iPod shuffle. Oh well, what's done is done. 

Back to my trust issues because I know you all want to here about those. I'm working on this thing where I don't really care what other people think of me.  I'm just doing what I want to do and trying to find myself. And with this exploration I hope to develop a true sense of self and form close relationships with people I love. It is very hard for me because of things that have happened in the past. With girls in high school all of a sudden not being my friends anymore and not talking to me with no explanation and me just assuming they didn't like me. So I stopped talking to them and things went downhill from there. And obviously with my dad leaving. Two tragic and scarring events that happened at the same time. Two events that have shaped me into the insecure, self-conscious person I am today.  Two events that have made me compare myself to other people constantly.  Two events that have made me question everything I do and think about how my decisions look to other people.  Wow. Maybe that's why I'm so exhausted all the time. Well I should probably change that. 

What do you do to build relationships? 

How do you forget the things that happened and move forward?