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Promises


Have you ever heard the phrase of “do not make promises you can’t keep?”
Ever think twice about that?
I mean how could we?

How could we say that we’ll love someone forever when we know that love is such a volatile emotion and after the so many stories of heartbreak and cheating bastards out there. Here and there we witness how human can be such a mean cruel creator towards one another - especially to ones that we say we love. 

How could we say that we will be there forever for someone or that we will have their back when we do not even hold the power of what tomorrow becomes. We can't even be sure if we will not be in the middle of a deep sleep when they need us or if we will even wake up tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow, we're not in any position to help anyone, maybe we will need help. Who knows. 

How could we say that it is our commitment  to do our best with anything entrusted to us when we know ourselves that it is exactly what everyone said in the beginning despite the varying results in the next years, months, weeks, or days. Is that really the best you can come up with to convince someone to hire you in an interview? 

How could we say that we are sorry and that we’ll never repeat the same mistake which I believe is such a cliché respond. Haven't you ever been wronged twice by the same person with the exact same malice behaviour? Haven't you done it yourself? We are so sure that we will not be that stupid again or falling to the same addiction but we did. We're such a sinful human being, aren't we?

Just,
Don’t.
The next time you’re about to make a promise to someone, stop.
Do not soften the blow for anyone by making such sweet promises for it will just delay the pain and make it worse.
Do not let anyone find hope for when it fails, they’ll be worse than before.
A promise is just like a band aid, a dirty one. It might cover up the wound for a bit, but we know it won’t last.
We know that sooner or later it will be torn apart.
And when that happened, the would would have been infected and become worse. 

So, 
Do not make promises you can’t keep.

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