To be honest, the first thing that comes to my mind anytime I see the word promise, I see it as something that won’t end well. I have made so many promises to people, some of which I was able to meet up with and others I kept having regrets about them. One thing I have come to realize is that most of the promises that are made, are made out of haste and lack of thorough thinking. We make promises just to get off the hook for a while and we forget that he who runs away from a fight will live to fight another day. Others make promises because they forget about life. They somehow just think they are in control of time as per doctor strange, lol.
Well, with all that in mind, the hivelearners prompt for this new week’s first edition has invited us to talk about A BROKEN PROMISE. There has been so many times I have broken the promises I have made to people even to myself. Most of them, I felt guilty about it and the others, I tried to feel justified for my actions. The truth is, these days, so many people are scared of making promises and that is because it feels almost impossible to keep a promise. To me, at some point I thought it was impossible to keep a promise because I kept breaking most of them.
One interesting thing I have learnt about making promises is that at that point, we most times forget that we are not in charge. We make promises as if we know what tomorrow holds but unfortunately, life always reminds us that it is not in our power to make decisions for tomorrow or even the next minute. Whenever I make a promise, I always remind myself and the person that it might not happen because I know how tricky making a promise can be. At a point, I even promised myself not to make promises but I can’t even count how many times I have broken that promise I made to myself.
The last promise I made to someone that I can remember very well I broke was that I was going to visit them and cook for them. I would have loved to tell you the whole story but I won’t so you can have a lot of questions to ask, haha. Well, apparently, now I can never fulfill that promise to them. Well, maybe I can but the chances are very slim. After that experience, I remember promising myself never to make promises again and here we are. I can’t remember how many times I have promised @justfavour that I won’t do some things again. I pray he doesn’t give up on me though.
I feel a little bit justified about breaking that promise to them because I didn’t want to promise that in the first place but I was in a tight spot and I just gave in. And besides that, I wasn’t really free at the time to move up and down due to my exams and stress from school. With the little opportunities I had, I preferred using it to rest and do some work that can fetch me some money for personal upkeep. I’m very sure they understand that very well so I’m no longer feeling guilty but I’d like to keep to that promise someday if God wills’.
A promise that was broken to me was when a friend promised to give me a phone only for him to later change his mind because I had a phone. According to him, he doesn’t make use of it and he doesn’t even need it and that was why I asked him to give it to me and he agreed only for him to change his mind the next day. Well, I didn’t care too much because it was almost feeling too good to be true. Although I had plans of giving the phone to my sister but too bad it never came.
For me, I’ll say there are so many valid reasons to a broken promise and that’s why I just prefer to refrain from making promises. We can never really know what is going on with the other person who has made us a promise that is about to get broken. Except the person is just wicked, if not, most people don’t enjoy breaking their promises. One major valid reason or factor for broken promises is the life factor. No one knows what tomorrow holds, not even the next second so it’s only normal that most promises won’t hold water. I’m tired of trying to explain myself whenever I break a promise and I’m still trying to break free completely from the act of making promises and just do what I can when I should.
Thank you for reading through. ❤️
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No one knows what tomorrow holds truly and also, we must be careful of promises made. I believe there are ways we could say we want to do something without actually making it a promise.
Something like we might do it or not but let’s see how it turns out. In this way, we don’t feel obliged to do it except we are able to and we can make promises when we are sure of doing it. But yes, just as you said, life has its play, too. What if we make promise and life brings something unpalatable our ways? That’s justifiable.
You and just favour sha🤔 you’ve promised and fail to me too o!
Anyways I think promises can be difficult sometimes and we don’t know at the point of making them. Sometimes I tell people because I didn’t use the word “promise” means I didn’t mean that hehehehe.
Wisdom will not finish you, sir. 🤣
Even the person at that point will agree. Well, I’m trying to do away with making promises. I have to Abeg. 🤲
But for real, you don’t know who Justfavour is to me? 🥲
I don’t, please tell me.
You are right and I have come to agree with the fact that as humans we must sometimes break promise not because we want but because it is above us. We can't keep all the promises we make.
Thanks for sharing
That’s right, mama. We can’t always keep promises and that’s why we should be careful of the promises we make.
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This time around I am trying to avoid promising people anything because I promise and break always , lol, life happens and I can't just control certain things, yet, I have the desire to do certain things for people but unfortunately , I can't meet up sometimes and thus break my promises ...the ones I break to my children has no valid reason oo..lol, even before I make some promise to them, I already know I will break it but for me to breath well from their troubles , I will just make the promise biko ..lol
Yes. Yes. Parents are the most guilty people in this field of making promises, lol.
Let’s just try to minimize how much we make promises as much as possible and just do what we know is good for ourselves and others.
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You are totally right about this. Life happens sometimes and worst cases Nigeria happens. Lolz
I try to be more realistic when it comes to making promises and I can keep it, I make such promises but if not, I will just say I will see what i can do and I'm not making any promises.
Yes. Yes. I can see what I can do is a good way to put things instead of making promises.
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Thank you. 🥰
It is that story that you refuse to share that we want to read, I'm more curious to know what led to going to cook for the person and why it never happened xd
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