Promise by Daryl Consigo

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Have you ever experienced being rendered with a promise by someone who later on broke it? If yes, you are not alone.
“ Promise is one of the components that contributes to the completion of love construction. It gives color to any relationship. However, it can also be a caused of the color to fade. Many people experienced being promised of something which were bearable and sweet. Most likely, in the context of courtship, both partners may promise to
be loyal, caring and to love each other fadelessly.

As a teenager, I experienced many sweet promises from my parents and friends. The only promise that I could’nt forget, not because it made me happy but because it made me cry, was the promise oathed to me by a girl, whom I thought could be the angel of my life, when I was in third year high school, I met someone who held my rare attention. I was attracted to her. I was eager to see her everyday. My day will not be complete without a glimpse of her face I tried many times to force my feet to move forward infront of her and talk with her, but my heart has a prior feeling of cowardness whenever I tried to do so.. One day, during our recess, I saw her having a snacks at the canteen. It was a perfect time for me to get her attention too, and so it was.

For almost two hours in staring at her face while having our conversation, we never noticed that we were running out of time for our next class. But even then, I was fulfilled. After those long conversation we became friends and began to build an intimate feelings to each toher. However, without any idea, I was ignorant to the fact that she has already a boyfriend and he was my friend.
One day, she withdraw a promise to me and said “just wait next week and you will know my answer.” She gave me the place and the exact time, I was so excited. The time came and that was Friday, when I arrived to the place, I saw her sitting in the bench with my friend. They were so sweet and so loving. The tears began to well in my eyes, and I said to myself, “how could she do this to me?”, she let me expect for nothing. Because of that experienced, for the very first time I cried in front of a woman.

I share this story to you not to change your perspective about “promise” but to let you know how painful it is to be promised for nothing. Promise is good, as long as you mean it heartedly. Always remember, that every words that will come out from your mouth are holy, so you should have to work on it and show to others, “how holy is the word by a promise, makes people happy and gay’..