I don't usually blog anything personal, but I just feel I need to share this. I realized this when I woke up this morning; but before I start, let me say that I know not all promises are about or for something or someone special, but those are the kind I'm talking about.

Someone once convinced me when I was young and impressionable, that you should never make any promises, because you don't know if you'll be able to keep them or not. That it's just safer not to commit. And for a long time I believed that. But now I see how wrong that is. If you never make any promises, you can't be held responsible for anything, you have no obligation to take action, and that makes you lazy. I know that a promise made close to the heart, when broken, can really hurt, but you shouldn't be afraid to take that risk. It's the risk of losing what you may care for that makes the promise all the more special and gives you the determination to fulfill it.

This was a very unexpected answer to a really complicated feeling I had for a long time, and I hope it can help anyone else who may relate to what I've just written.