The sun sets on another day…
I wasn’t sure about sunset until the sky lit up like Christmas. I felt a tear in my eye, and smiled as the world became a lightshow. It was nothing less than terrific.
I wrote a little about similar here.
I wrote once before about promises. Actually, I’ve written a few times about promises and about all of the pieces that a promise encompasses. I think about all of the times that people have promised me something and all of the times that I have promised them something as well. As I do so why often find myself wondering if I kept the promise. Sometimes a promise transforms as time passes on and I don’t believe that should happen. Here I sit wondering about the past for about 30 seconds and then setting it aside. As per my fun little mantra, i will not whine about the past because it is the past but sometimes it’s fascinating to think about the promises that we make, especially to ourselves.
That’s where it gets interesting sometimes. I made a promise to myself I would retire by the age of 40, oops. I made a promise to myself that I would change the world and find a way to help others always, oops. I made a promise to myself that I would build an amazing house, I got that one partially right. I made a promise that I would love deeply always and live life to my fullest, I’m working on that one.
Does this sound familiar? Sometimes we make promises to ourselves and to others and can’t make them work. Sometimes it’s our fault, sometimes it’s not. But we have to decide if we deserve a second chance. We have to decide if that promise was made in earnest or if we made the honest effort or if we pushed that little extra and still couldn’t go over the top.
I suppose in the end it is a lot like the Man of la Mancha, that we need to fight for the right without question or pause and be willing to March into hell for a heavenly cause. Maybe that cause should be keeping a promise. One last thing, the words “no matter what” have special meaning to me because of a promise. It may have been a promise that was not meant or kept, but it is a promise that I will keep. It is a promise for me to never stop until that option is taken away from me. Cryptic I know, but I will keep on going.
So as the sun sets on another day, I hope every day is amazing for you and that the promise of another day lets you enjoy today to its fullest. I hope the promises you keep are amazing and the promises you can’t keep don’t ever keep you up at night. Remember that a promise is a promise but sometimes you have to work hard to get another chance. Be that person that means what they say and pushes for far more every day, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and keep living…