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How dark, intentionally so? It's precisely because they are hard that promises are so important - not the fulfilment perhaps, but the undertaking: a conscious decision, a requirement, a binding, where the first person I injure in not keeping it is myself. I disagree with your "because I can't, I want to all the more" reasoning. The increased longing is the first step in rationalising the process that leads us to do what we said we wouldn't. It justifies our subsequent act to lessen the feeling of betrayal because it 'was just too hard, anyway'... (Ask any smoker.) If a promise is a cloud, fulfilment is the silver lining, the rainbow or those formations we all like to see in the sky. I like promises; they're a big part of what makes me human. Keeping them i- and the feeling that causes - is the extra special bonus you get afterwards.
revenant · 2009-10-19: 15:15
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lovely quote....nice set.
Katlover · 2009-10-19: 17:40
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Ohhh.... Hmmmm Ok, maybe a promise is like an unwritten contract or agreement, it evokes a trust or leads to expectation...I don't tend to use the 'P' word. But if I make a promise to a child or an animal then I do whatever it takes to fulfill that promise...I always try to fulfill my words anyway, but tend not to use the 'promise' declaration to adults...I'll give 100% to make those things happen, sometimes I fail...my own disappointment is greatest on such occasions. Great set, lovely to see Jamie with camera. I never knew you wore glasses :-)
tedbarlow · 2009-10-19: 17:56
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so true. if we but know the damages that unfulfilled promises caused
slowpete · 2009-10-20: 01:30
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Love the joy in Jamie's face in #1 and the fisheye in 3 is perfect.
etodd80 · 2009-10-27: 21:37
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