It's beginning to occur to me that a lot of people don't know the meaning of the word "promise." And even the ones who do don't uphold its righteous credibility.
From even the smallest of pinky promises to lifetime commitments, so many cannot be kept! So what, may I ask you, is the point of making a promise in the first place? Is it to assure someone that we can be trusted to do something, or to convince ourselves of it?
Now don't get me wrong, a lot promises are kept, but people change, and so do feelings... So why pretend that we can tell the future and know who we'll be when tested to the limit of a promise? Shouldn't we just let life play out, allowing ourselves, our feelings and our ability to trust someone to grow and change without the need to predict it?
If you're going to make a promise, at least have the decency to show power in not breaking it, despite changes in life. (Unless you're breaking one to help someone in danger of course!)
Perhaps we want to believe our own good intentions, as well as others', and allow ourselves to be swept away by the ideal behind every promise. Even after learning that we all inevitably break them sometimes, we continue to believe... Because, I suppose, what is life without hope?
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