In life we constantly have to commit to things. We need to commit to our school, our friends, a job, a partner and most of all, our own beliefs. When saying it out loud it might sound daunting and challenging but if you think about it, we all do it without even noticing it. It's like it goes without saying, in life we commit to different things and that is what makes our lives be more than just many days lived separately.
However, I have noticed something with people around me. We seem to struggle to commit to each other. Not in the way that we stab each other in the back and stop caring for each other but in the way that there are always other things that come in between. Now-a-days it is so easy to make plans with someone and then the same day send a text saying that you are busy and doing this without feeling any guilt at all. It seems like we have lost all the feeling for starting something and following it through until the end. This can be applied to everything from a university degree to relationships. When something gets difficult we run instead of facing the problem and stay with what we've gotten ourselves into.
Because of this we seem to have lost the ability to commit to most things, even ourselves sometimes. We lose touch with friends, we don't finish our work on time or we constantly go against our own morals and beliefs and there we are one day, realising that what we are doing is living our lives like there was no tomorrow. Even though we are constantly told that YOLO (you only live once) I think we need to realise that life doesn't work that way and the things we do have consequences. You might wonder what kind of consequences I am talking about so let me tell you why I even got inspired to write this.
To me it seems like more and more people cheat on their partner. Just in the last few months I've heard of at least 10 couples breaking up because of this.When hearing this it made me wonder, why does it seem to be that difficult to commit to one person? If you're with a person that makes you happy and you've decided to be a couple, then why do you have to go and find someone else? If the person you're already with doesn't make you happy enough then you should most likely not be with that person at all. I'm not trying to tell all of you to re-evaluate your relationships but I'm trying to say that if you're committed to a person you have a responsibility. When someone stops caring about that commitment the relationship will break.
We tend to come up with excuses everyday about us not being able to stick to what we we've promised ourselves and other people and it makes no sense to me.
It isn't only when it comes to relationships that we can't seem to commit. Being a student in her final year I have noticed how my coursemates constantly seem to forget about their work and then have to sit the last week before deadline to finish off everything. I'm not saying they're not allowed to do that but the thing that annoys me the most is when they complain about having to do that. If they had been committed earlier on they wouldn't be in that situation. But once again this proves my theory once again, WE. CANNOT. COMMIT.
Maybe it's time for all of us to start to realise that it's the commitments in life that makes us achieve things. We have a responsibility, not only to other people, but to ourselves to finish what we started. If we all learnt to commit to ourselves, maybe we would actually be committed to each other and that way understand the responsibility we have as fellow human beings.
However, I have noticed something with people around me. We seem to struggle to commit to each other. Not in the way that we stab each other in the back and stop caring for each other but in the way that there are always other things that come in between. Now-a-days it is so easy to make plans with someone and then the same day send a text saying that you are busy and doing this without feeling any guilt at all. It seems like we have lost all the feeling for starting something and following it through until the end. This can be applied to everything from a university degree to relationships. When something gets difficult we run instead of facing the problem and stay with what we've gotten ourselves into.
Because of this we seem to have lost the ability to commit to most things, even ourselves sometimes. We lose touch with friends, we don't finish our work on time or we constantly go against our own morals and beliefs and there we are one day, realising that what we are doing is living our lives like there was no tomorrow. Even though we are constantly told that YOLO (you only live once) I think we need to realise that life doesn't work that way and the things we do have consequences. You might wonder what kind of consequences I am talking about so let me tell you why I even got inspired to write this.
To me it seems like more and more people cheat on their partner. Just in the last few months I've heard of at least 10 couples breaking up because of this.When hearing this it made me wonder, why does it seem to be that difficult to commit to one person? If you're with a person that makes you happy and you've decided to be a couple, then why do you have to go and find someone else? If the person you're already with doesn't make you happy enough then you should most likely not be with that person at all. I'm not trying to tell all of you to re-evaluate your relationships but I'm trying to say that if you're committed to a person you have a responsibility. When someone stops caring about that commitment the relationship will break.
We tend to come up with excuses everyday about us not being able to stick to what we we've promised ourselves and other people and it makes no sense to me.
It isn't only when it comes to relationships that we can't seem to commit. Being a student in her final year I have noticed how my coursemates constantly seem to forget about their work and then have to sit the last week before deadline to finish off everything. I'm not saying they're not allowed to do that but the thing that annoys me the most is when they complain about having to do that. If they had been committed earlier on they wouldn't be in that situation. But once again this proves my theory once again, WE. CANNOT. COMMIT.
Maybe it's time for all of us to start to realise that it's the commitments in life that makes us achieve things. We have a responsibility, not only to other people, but to ourselves to finish what we started. If we all learnt to commit to ourselves, maybe we would actually be committed to each other and that way understand the responsibility we have as fellow human beings.
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