PROMISE

PROMISE

It breaks no sweat to make a promise, it is no work at all, but the real work is after a promise has been made, because from that moment you become a debtor to the person to whom you have made the promise, and no man honourable, noble, and sane would owe a debt and not pay, nor consider paying it at a point.

If you don't want to be a debtor of promises, do not make rash, and unnecessary promises; if you must make promises consider very well what the situation, conditions, and circumstances are, and be sure you are up to the task of fulfilling that promise. Sometimes, you don't have to make a promise, but you have to take an action, it is best you take that action, because it speaks louder than words.

We don't only make promises, sometimes we receive promises too, and when we do receive this promises we must ensure we understand them and not interpret them to be what they are not. We must also understand that when promises made to us are broken, we keep ourselves intact and unbroken. Like Jennifer Donnelly said, "I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you".

Giving or receiving a promise is a good thing, but breaking a promise, or over-reliance on another promise is not a good thing. Be careful how you promise, and what you promise; you must also be careful whose promise you accept or believe. In the words of Anthony Hitt, "Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep". Don't put yourself in an unredeemable debt in the name of making a PROMISE.

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John Kamikun

Author, "366 days of wisdom".