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[swordsandroses]

As of late I've thought about how I make promises. I'm almost always a man of my word, but in the past I've broken promises or just didn't make any effort to keep them at all. I usually didn't feel very bad for doing so, because, after all, a promise is just a string of words, right? Or so I justified myself. It was one promise in particular that I

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[arrowwhiskers]

I think of promises like lies. I know that sounds vaguely morbid; it is. But when I tell someone something, I know if it's the truth, or if I'm lying, and I know why I'm doing it. If I promise someone something, I may have several motivations for doing so, but going in, I feel like I should know whether or not I am going to break it, and why. If I go in thinking that I won't break it, then that means it's something that I should not have to break. Thus, if I end up doing so, then that's wrong.

Admittedly, I have a v. fucked up sense of morals.