Breaking Promises We Make To Ourselves
Today I wanted to pull out some old blog posts that I had tucked away in a secret drawer behind my clothes in the wardrobe. Better yet, get the ones hidden in the foundation of my garage. True story. But I couldn’t get myself to do either. Morals or something like that prevents me from breaking a promise I made to myself.
The thing about breaking a promise to yourself is that it’s worse than breaking those we made to others. Other people can move on and maybe forgive you. They can leave you, they do not know you as you know you, and they may not have that much faith in you, to begin with.
When you break a promise to yourself, you become a stranger to yourself. There is conflict inside of you. Friction between who you say you are and who you actually are. This leads to you losing confidence in yourself. If you failed to keep that promise, what is to say that you won’t break the next. How can you possibly live up to your own expectations if you could do that? The worst part is that this spills out into your daily life and your entire perspective of who you get like jelly wobbly. Was I a lie this whole time? Things go downhill extremely fast from here on. Because the hardest person to forgive most times is ourselves.
We expect the most from us. And sometimes are too confident in who we think we actually are. One thing to take away is that we have to be very honest with ourselves when we make promises to ourselves. Because breaking those promises may not be worth it. So I blogged anyway cause I promised myself.
