What are broken promises?

Everyone has their own definition of decommitments or betrayal at many levels in their lives. The easiest one might be, “A dropping or turning away from a prior commitment”.

 Why do we say or do something based on an adrenaline rush and then never find the courage to fulfil what we have perpetrated? Why do we take relations, humans, for granted and prefer material things in this temporary world? Money, land, stones, gems, material deals, and even career, will this all bring back the relations we once had? Will any of this mend the hearts we broke? Will any of this lull the souls that were tortured by us, by our choices?

Yet we run from the relations that truly matter to the material or transient stuff and temporary relations. We make excuses to pass our time without realizing what our actions will cost someone else. Instead of thinking about any of this, our focus stays on our entertainment, our time must be spent well. We never think of the person we are using as a toy for our pastime. We find some weak soul and manipulate it till we wish and then we find excuses to dispose of it from our lives. We pose, for some time, that we are ashamed but in reality, this was all part of the game.

We use, abuse, manipulate the weak one and take all the energy that the poor soul has left. We take all that we need and then dispose of the rest without ever considering that maybe the other person needed support more than you have taken from them. We are such selfish souls that even after having all our support systems intact, we avaricious pooches suck on to people who literally lack all.

So back to promises. As some great scholar once said, “A promise means everything but once it’s broken, sorry means nothing”. ~ Unknown

I believe it is quite evident that some things and allegiances are meant to be kept. No one forces you to promise things you can’t keep. Then why do people still stick around even when the other is on the track of healing and has the courage to move all by him/herself? Why do we push ourselves into their journey and stay in contact even when they have said goodbye? Why do we force ourselves into their lives and get them addicted to us, make us their whole world, make us their home and then what? We are done with them? Just like that? We realize that our dreams are more important than fulfilling our commitments to someone. We get bored of the toy we took for our entertainment and to pass time.

We find excuses and make them our priority to avoid that soul whom we have hurt the most. We make excuses to avoid our commitments. To avoid our promises – in fact, we make all these excuses to avoid our conscience. We run away from ourselves by blocking the other person after using them. Doesn’t our conscience ever question us why we are playing with other humans the way we would never wish to be treated? Or we have closed our ears for good from pricks of conscience as not to ever go back to any sanity ever? Or we just don’t wish to cognizance the consequences of our actions on another person’s soul?

Whatever the circumstances are or however we console our conscience that everything is good from our end and we are the victim of the situation that has forced us to hurt or leave someone behind – the fact stays the same. It’s nothing else, but our own doings. We can’t run away from ourselves and our conscience forever. If not now then later in life this all will come back and hit us where it hurts the most and that’s when we will regret our actions. Then we will regret using someone for pastimes while we were striving for a better future.