Have you guys ever broken a promise or a pledge before? I have, and I'm wondering if I'm going to break my most recent promise.
Last year, I was dating a guy that wanted me to quit smoking. After all, it's healthier that way. So I decided to give up smoking for Lent(the start of Lent also coincided nicely with his birthday). But a month later when he started avoiding me and cheating on me, I stopped caring. I went out to a bar to pick up some guys and the guys there bought me drinks, and you know how well smoking Newports and drinking go together...lol so that pledge got broken. Even though giving up something for Lent is (in a way) a promise to God, I also kinda saw it as a promise to the guy who wanted me to quit smoking...and now it seemed absolutely pointless to hold up to something that an ASSHOLE wanted me to fulfill. In a way, breaking my promise to stop smoking felt like I was spiting my now-ex.
Now this year, I promised to become less promiscuous after I found out that some of the hoes I was hanging with either had wives or an STD(luckily I'm clean and I didn't encounter any wives!). When I was anxiously awaiting my STD test results, I prayed a lot and promised God that I would change my ways if my tests came back clean(and they did). But now as I write on SW about a guy I'm seeing that's been putting his friends ahead of me on his priority list, people tell me that I should ditch the guy and move on. But moving on means going back to how I was before, and I wonder if that is a violation of my promise that I made to be a little more moral with my dating practices. I don't give a shit about disappointing a guy, but God?...not such a good idea.
Is this wrong? Feedback?


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