PROMISE

The one thing I do hate about promises is that you have to keep them. As History has it, the first promise ever made was from God to man; back then it was a huge deal, for instance, the promised land, Abraham was promised a son and the Isrealites were promised God's protection, but it wasn't long before man took matters into their own hands and started making solid promises between countries in form of treaties, laws etc. Then came marriages as lifetime promises people made to each other in form of vows and finally like everything else that man plays around with, came to loose meaning.

"I promise" two words that have become a total cliché for the actual opposite of the promise. I don't know if it is bad luck or accidental but when one makes a promise they often fail to deliver, not because they don't want to but because of unavoidable circumstances.

Comforting and Assurance are the two words describing the feeling one gets when they are promised something. Even if the promise has never been kept by person offering it, it would still have an impact on the recipient who would give them another chance.

Promises are like laws and we all know that laws are made to be broken, this is a fact because it is expected that a subject will go against the law so that the lawmakers can impose the consequences on them. Promises are similar in a way that they are mostly broken, when someone makes a promise it will not be documented, so you can only hope that it would be out of the goodness of their hearts that they will deliver.

I want to discuss two kinds of promises that I feel exist; intra-promises and inter-promises (yes I made them up) Intra-promise is self promise a promise that you make to yourself for personal gain. This happens a lot in our daily endeavors, for instance you make it an obligation to deposit half your daily earnings in a piggy bank, that's a promise or you could swear never to watch porn again, that is a promise too. When one breaks an intra-promise there is mild or no effect at all to the individual, it would not be visible to others but it might bother you for a while. On the other hand inter-promises are promises you make to someone or a group of people. They too could occur on a daily basis as we promise people to: see them, to bring them presents or simply promise to call them. When broken no lie can surpass the visible truth which liesė crystal clear to the naked eye of the offended. If the promise was a huge deal and gets broken, your life may change in some way.

I do hate promising because when I fail to keep it the guilt engulfs me like a virus on a cell. Its funny that most things people hate are things they cope with and learn to love. When I was in high school I never saw myself tasting alcohol, in fact I swore that I never would, but now I look back and feel silly. I say to my self "what was I thinking" Then there is weed which was said to make people mad, tisk tisk tisk, let me make it a story for another day. Rather than making promises we should tend to simply  keep important things mind. Its less harmful than a broken promise. Say you promise yourself and swear you'd never drink alcohol then temptation hits you like thunder. The Result here is that you will know you can never quit drinking no matter what. On the other hand if you keep in mind that drinking is harmful to you, the result is that you won't feel that you are betraying yourself but a guilt will be cramping you to stagnation and that's how you will stop and believe that if you set your mind to do something, you can actually do it.

I cannot promise you a smooth sail into the future only God can do that, but one thing I can promise you is a future full of obstacles, a future without empathy, a future where survival is only for the fittest. That is what I am sure and I also feel safe to say is my promise to you. As we cross over to a new year, resolutions are like intra-promises make sure you keep them or live with non, picking things up as you go. May you all have a happy, blessed and prosperous new year. Adios.