“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present”
Niccolo Machiaveli
Niccolo Machiaveli
Tomorrow is the execution of a program, a charity project by some of colleagues and I for a children home in Seri Menanti, and on the same date is Fiza’s wedding, one of my closest friend during my tenure in JB, and also the convocation of my ex PTPL students. Well, I do wish I can attend all of that. My friends in JB keep asking if I can make it, and my students said that I promise to be there for them the day they graduated. I am feeling a bit guilty for promises that I made before hand, as if telling everyone promises are meant to be broken, easy to make but it is hard to keep.
There is a day in everyone’s life, when we made promises, but we failed to keep them. Some grew guilty conscious, accessory after the fact, others just brush it off. Like I said I over think everything, blaming myself for making promises without thinking of the consequences, and I know people would say, let it be, they will understand you have to work. I know that my friend and my students will forgive me. I am sorry for breaking my promise; nothing can justify the reason why.
2 comments:
i understand if people can't say no even if they intended to. it's ok. i guess we all need to cut some slack on everyone, and ourselves, too.
So true, but we have to be careful in making promises, some people tend to live by their words.
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