I am growing weary of watching the futility of people making promises to one another and I know that those promises are no reliable prediction of the future. In spite of all the trust and faith put in them, the promises are little more than a statement of someone’s good intentions. I suppose we all feel better when we think we can predict a future where things turn out just the way we expect. I’m working on what I think is a much better way for myself.
I have come to accept that there are no guarantees that carry into the future, least of all guarantees we make to one another. I have noticed that assurance I have given or received, no matter how good the intentions were, end up being a weak prediction of the future. These promises assumed that the future circumstances could be adequately predicted and presumed how we would act For me, it has been an attempt to live in an imagined time that is yet to happen. I don’t see much stability in any of that.
All I can say or hear from someone else is to describe what is going on right now, and that can be a little fuzzy. I can reasonably say that this is the person I am now, and these are my intentions. I don’t think any of us can predict how we will act tomorrow.