Promises

I’m sure we have all made promises in our life. Some of which were probably simple things and other things which were more serious. At the same time I’m sure that at some point everyone has broken a promise. Of the more serious promises or commitments how long is one bound to that? I mean there are such high rates of divorces, best friends who no longer talk, family who hate each other. So is a promise really forever? It is something you should really hold on until the grave or are there situations which even if you promise its only pending certain conditions?

I’m sure we have all been in situations where we made a packed with someone for something drastic or just important but then they didn’t follow through with it. It reminds me of younger kids who promise to dye their hair some crazy colors, and one person shows up to school the next day with pink or green hair and the other comes in and says I though you were just joking. Is that breaking a promise? Is it looking out for oneself? How the person who is stuck with pink hair for months feel? I think the same thing goes for friendships, family and partners, when does what one have the right to cut off other people from their lives in order to advance their life? When does it become being a bitch and breaking a promise of support and love and when is about self progress? People often say if that person jumps off a bridge will you, so where is the line of being that person’s support and being the stupid person who also jumped? Is there every really a good reason to break a promise? Or are promises no longer excitant in our greedy world and so it really is everyone on their own? There must be significance to the saying, only when times are rough do you know who your true friends are.