Big greetings from D. Typing Fingers! I hope Friday went according to your plans.
Got a hot off the presses subject for you to have a good stare at today. I’ll try to keep this post reading ride on the smoother side of the road. Please adjust your chair for maximum reading comfort. Aaaand we’re off!
Have you ever thought about what comes after a broken promise? Now hold that pose for a moment. Before we climb that brain twister… I think it might be a good idea to take a peek at what makes a promise something we should be able to take to the bank and open a line of credit with.
I don’t mind getting a little help with answering this question. Because I believe that answering this question is going to require a little heavy lifting. It’s one of those five hundred pound questions for sure. So don’t forget to bend your knees and keep you back straight before you start thinking up an answer.
In ancient history a promise came in the form of words coming out of a person’s mouth, saying that they were giving their personal guarantee, that whatever they said they would do or wouldn’t do would take place. Making a promise, now as well as way back then, was the same thing as giving someone your word.
I think that there are basically two things in a promise that makes a promise worthy of trust. -That would be a person’s reputation for being trustworthy, and their having a good reputation for completing their promises.
I’d say that’s about five hundred pounds worth of lifting, wouldn’t you say? Can I get an alright? Maybe’s are welcome too!
You know, I don’t know why, but if you’ll check it out, you’ll probably find that many of the cultures in the world rely on a promise as something that they should be able to count on. I’m real sure of that. -And that almost everyone will agree that people should not make promises they cannot keep.
Just think. Promises are made week in and week out around the world. Some promises have been termed empty promises, some are known as shallow promises, and some are known as solemn promises. Let’s take an x-ray view of the first two. But now don’t be amazed. Each of these two negative kinds of promises are bona fide promises, because I promise is the exact words the promise-er would be using. Fun fact for ya. The truest promise is always the promise that is kept.
Speaking of which, I’d like to say that the solemn promise, without a doubt, would be the one I would bet my money on. This would be the promise given by someone who would get genuinely remorseful and restless if they couldn’t fulfill their promise to someone. Okay, now we can get back to the other two.
An empty promise? What’s that sound like? I’m glad to tell you that this question has a very easy answer. It sounds like a person giving out a promise they have no real intention of ever keeping. Warning! Promises of this kind are frequently used by scam artist and romantic hustlers asking for favors.
A shallow promise? A shallow promise is like an empty promise, but it is put together a little bit differently. It is a promise that is made by the promise-er, counting on whenever whatever the promise-ee is due, they will be able to lean on the mercy of the promise-ee to accept a new promise to fulfill the prior promise they haven’t kept. Oh, and I forgot to mention. Both shallow and empty promises are often accessorized with convenient excuses and ghosting options.
Hey. I confess. I’ve made promises before. And I fully understand that not all promises are easy to keep, and that things don’t always go the way we would like them to. When things don’t go right for us, I do realize that our plans have to change, and our promises have to be put on hold. At such times we need to ask for mercy, and work it out with the people we’ve promised, as to how we intend to complete our promise to them.
I must sound like I’m typing everywhere but at the point of all of this. Sorry about that. I know I’m not creeping up on the point I’m trying to make fast enough. What I’m building up to is I just want to say that we should be careful making promises. Maybe try keeping our promises a little smaller, or not promise at all, or leave promising at just I’ll try.
People judge us about how well we keep our word, right? Every time we say we promise, we put our reputation for meaning what we say on the line. Believe you me, I’m a big fan of keeping my promises. It defines a good size portion of my character for really!
Let me just stop right here a second. I’ll bet you thought I forgot about my question asking about what comes after a broken promise, huh? I didn’t too much. Well kinda more than not too much. More like… …Sigh… I’ll fess up. Yeah, I forgot. I happened to catch my fault when I was proof reading this post. You’re not going to ruin my career by telling my editor, are you? Big thanks! I owe you one.
Okay. After the first time somebody breaks a promise to someone, without a good reason, I think it would cause the promise-ee to harbor a doubt about the promise breaker’s sincerity. That would be strike one. Breaking a second promise in a row, to the same person, without a good reason, is sure to get them all the way to mistrust. And strike three…? To tell you the truth, it’s pretty much a two strike system at this point. But let me tell you about God’s promises in a blink. He’s never broken one of His promises yet!
Ooops. It’s that time. Thanks for stopping by and reading! May your day be super blessed! B. Y. E.
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