Thursday, July 24, 2008

To commit, or not to commit. That is the question


com·mit
Audio Help [kuh-mit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -mit·ted, -mit·ting.
–verb (used with object)
1. to give in trust or charge; consign.
2. to consign for preservation: to commit ideas to writing; to commit a poem to memory.
3. to pledge (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; express (one's intention, feeling, etc.): Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to commit himself.
4. to bind or obligate, as by pledge or assurance; pledge: to commit oneself to a promise; to be committed to a course of action.
5. to entrust, esp. for safekeeping; commend: to commit one's soul to God.


everyone's got commitments. but it's ones those who think about what kind of commitment they are making prior to when they make it that matters. a commitment isn't a commitment unless it is kept until the end - or until the period promised. we all expect things from our lovers, family, and friends. according how intimate, close, and emotionally attached yu are, the amount of commitment and the willingness varies. and of course, it hurts to know or assume the amount of commitment between the two are bigger than yu think - and be let down. yu look for friends for comfort. yu look for my best friend for comfort. yu are just as willing to give as much back - if not even twice the amount, and it always hurts to know that they are the ones who've let yu down, when they are the ones yu usually look for. this is when emotion takes over. this is when yu cannot control the outbursts of feeling - this is what makes a human, a human. we have the ability to control the emotion we feel at different time of day and situation - and the personality and the way we are brought up changes how we deal with this - and this is what makes each and every one of us the same yet so different. everyone comes across a point in life where they lose control of expressing how they feel - where they feel like their head is about to explode due to the frustration, anger, disappointment, and betrayal. we use words to describe these emotions; but is it ever enough? emotion is so much more than what we call them - sadness feels like it's about to rip yur heart apart, depression feels like a gigantic black cloud sat in your head, depression feels like giving up the one thing yu were given when yu were born - life, loneliness feels like an empty hole in yur heart...
do those lexis really sum up the wave of emotion we feel?
commitment is all about being able to gain someone's trust - and making a promise to be by their side no matter what; to support their decisions no matter what the consequences. commitment is about being able to fully throw yurself and swear to be obliged to do whatever that was promised, again, no matter what.
a commitment broken results to an outburst of emotion. yu may hurt, yu may cry, yu may even feel emotionless - this is emotion that is undescribed. when yu've given everything yu could possibly think of - everything that matters in your life, to someone else, and in just a couple of minutes it could feel like it never happened before. it takes an incredibly frightening amount of time to gain one's trust - and it takes seconds to destroy it. this is why people feel betrayed. all those months, years, and even seconds spent with them meant so much to yu, but through a certain action or words said by one that matters most to yu, yu feel everything is lost. yur heart feels like it weighs the world. what goes around comes back around. yu're only able to know how it feels to be let down, only if yu've been there. so unless someone has literally been there, the things such as "i know how yu feel" or "i understand" is just bluntly speaking 0 bullshit. don't make a commitment yu are not willing to stick to. don't make a commitment yu know yu aren't able to keep. it may be a few words that form a promise to yu, but to someone else, it means everything they've got.

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