Broken Vows

“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present”; expresses Niccolo Machiavelli.

Lina Hanna Hanna.

From the time we human beings could talk to one another, we have been making pledges and giving guarantees to offer a certain refuge we seek among the ever changing world we live in. Relationships can be damaged by common, everyday violation of faith… words can mislead us and delude us to a false security, to a fraud durability that can never last. It begins with a small lie, to a cover-up for a forgotten important date or number or promise, each of these take a bite out of confidence so we seek a pledge.

Furthermore why do we need a promise? I think it is because we need an assurance of permanence, to reserve a place in the hearts of those we love for the future; and somehow thinking that this promise will fight the mischievous elves of change away from us and that we will continue to have in the upcoming tense what we have in the present?. We crave it so bad that the thought of loosing it for the unknown frightens us? And what is the mysterious but the future? They yet to occur, the yet to alter, that point in time we have no command over whatsoever.

And there are promises we make to ourselves, promises of change, of challenge, of war, of peace, of never changing… and staying the same.

But little do we know that we are breaking that promise at the very moment we state it, while making it … how can we make a promise for the future? When we are only masters of the present, results of the past and potentials of the future? Of the might be or might not be… We can never promise what is not definite, what is subject to transformation, to conversion or maybe not… But when nothing is certain everything is probable.

We regard those who carry on with their promises, people of honesty, while those who don’t keep them as people who are to be taken slightly and at worst can’t be reliable. However, sometimes we overlook how authoritative our words are, and we use them chaotically or unconsciously, and thus producing hopes that are never satisfied, leaving regret and distrust in our awakening.

And we start probing and inquiring for legal and valid reasons to legitimate our deception.

The oath makes us believe even if we know deep at heart that it is no warranty or contract with the enemy who is nothing but the lies…

We are fragile emotional creatures sometimes a word can make us or even break us, words have powers and we have to abide by them but there are really no certification, only time can expose, like the famous sayings goes:” if wishes were fishes no one would have died of hunger” sometimes it takes more than an vow to ensure our hearts desires and sometimes even if we mean every word we say , time can force us to take a different path, and we can not act according to our wish for there are life changing matters and circumstances.

We have to respect our words and try our best to stand for and by it, but in case we fail let us not be the judge but instead let us be the lawyer that will defend and hear out the plead others proclaim and have the right to with us . Anyone who does not slay our existence for a broken promise or a word that never was translated into actions will sure be the lawyer and not the judge in our life.

Let us practice Playing fair and know that we can hold our judgment against our peers in any chosen arena. Let us expand self-belief, filter our objectives, and make progress by being prepared to put our requests, attitude, thoughts, or expertise to the test .be powerful by transformation through awareness.

And keep in mind that our words may not always be gospel to those who hear them.