promises

there should be a worldwide ban on promises.

mainly cos they're hardly ever kept.

i imagine in the past, promises were a treasured and revered thing... you only ever made a promise if you intended, with all your heart, to keep it... it was like something sacred.. between two people or the people involved... you only ever made promises to people whose relationships with you had developed past a certain stage... best friends, family, potential spouses....

as with developments and advancements in technology and in every possible field, society's moved and grown... morals and ethics changed.. priorities and beliefs altered... mindsets shifted..

promises, where once upon a time, the mere utterance of which meant the world to someone, now are mere nothings.

"yes i promise i will..."
"i promise i will never.."
"don't worry.. i promise you.."
"i swear......"

just the thought of these examples disgusts me. the lackadaisical use of these phrases..... the uninterest, indifference... no.. obviously not at the point of utterance.. somehow, people these days have the amazing ability to say such words and appear to mean them... but at some point, we realise that they were said with no true intention of service.

what world will our children be born into? what society will they grow up in? i bet our parents are asking themselves the same thing of us. and nothing's being done about it. noone's really bothering to revert morality to the way it was...

hell. even "innocence" has a different meaning now.

it's a hate-the-world day for me.... only thing to rejoice in is that i'm headed for hongkong in a couple of weeks... and korea in a month and a half....

always look on the bright side of life.

there are a million things to be happy and grateful and thankful for.

i try to remind myself of that every now and then.