Breaking Promises

As You Saw in the Last Post (Or Not)...

I was going to be posting my thoughts on all the writing prompts I had to choose from (even if they weren't necessarily the one I chose to do it on). Well,  you'll understand possibly by the end of this post why I didn't really want to do any of the others. It wasn't because they were hard, it's just because I couldn't really connect to it.

Prompt: Most of us have been in a situation where we made a promise that for one reason or another we were unable to keep.

When were you disappointed because someone made you a promise that they failed to keep? Or when did you break a promise that you made to someone else?

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What does this even mean to me? I'm the kind of person who rarely ever picks up on the fact that you're betraying her on some stupid promise you made. I don't know if having no regrets means having no dignity, but I could care less if you told someone some big secret about me that I didn't really want others to know. I mean the fact that I told you already made it not a secret. What hurts is when you tell someone something personal and they make fun of you for it by telling other people and making that personal thing negative. That's so much more different. No, that's never happened to me (fortunately), but I guess--and it's not really a big deal and it could never be--is I have been disappointed when people promise me something and they never do. This always happens. It's basically my life and I'm very used to it, but it seems like everything I want dearly always ends up with the person in said situation promising me this thing and then bailing out on me. It really isn't fair on my end, but I realize there are circumstances (and sometimes there aren't) so I don't sweat it. Of course, it doesn't mean I don't feel bad about this stuff, but what can I do about it? Absolutely nothing. I just have to kind of deal with it.

I don't think I can remember a time when I broke a promise. Perhaps, being somewhere on time, but that's about it. I try as hard as I possibly can to avoid making promises.  It does you no good to make a promise you aren't going to keep or try your hardest to keep. There is obvious effort when you make a promise and then don't come through. If you obviously tried then you know what, it's okay, but when you didn't, that's just being an asshole. You can't do that. This is why I refrain from making promises and the ones I do make are usually very minimal and have no effect on me if for some reason I cannot fulfill this promise.