Commitment

[greenbug]

Commitment, loyalty, duty or a pledge. What dose it mean? What dose it do? Do only the wise hold evidence of what it means? Or perhaps the arrogant understand what it means, perhaps to them it is just an excuse.

Loyalty, duty or a pledge all speak of bad times. That is commitment can only exist if there is presence of hard choices or decisions that would lead to better things or times. Its beyond morality or what is ethical. A commitment is a path that is least fallowed and one that is the hardest to stay on.

You can not leave a commitment on a backburner. A commitment isn’t something that can be ignored and then come back to. But then there is a loop hole, perhaps what your doing is going to pay off in the long run for what you have committed to. Whose to say but the person that is committed.

But what is the goal? The idea is not to give up, regardless of what happens. What does it prove? Is some one stronger when they are committed? When you do something longer then any one else only you have perception of just what it means. Perhaps it has to deal with being lonely or alone. A commitment could be an expression of anger or angst , a way of saying ‘I will last, I will survive’.. Having some one or something to show for all you go threw or sacrifice is a reward that may give meaning to life, where the was none.

Even belief has its place in commitment. To gamble what is known or unknown, to be unsure or what your doing or where your going, is a scary concept. To fantasize that what your doing is based on some sort of logic that will eventually pay off or that it has a future, is a commitment to survival or ones soul.

I wonder why people focus on commitment and why its so important to them. I look for the answers of all that I know. In away I commit my self to the definitive, which I also believe to be the infinitive. Yet according to some that’s not a commitment at all. I’m not pledged, its not a duty, it holds no loyalties or a solid idea of reality, its doesn’t deal with my survival. So to some I’m weak because I can not commit, that nothing I do is a form of commitment. So I wonder perhaps it is fear that drives commitment? Yet one would say it is my fear that prevents me from committing. I’m always unsure but I’m not afraid because every side to me is balanced. To me nothing is known and commitment seems premature or selfish. In a world or universe that constantly changes commitment seams like giving up or not allowing room for change. In away commitment seems ignorant , which it is only to support the goal, yet other goals will make them selves know. So perhaps a commitment is an acknowledgement of our own mortality.

[Graybeard]

Perhaps some decision is looming, time is running out and no decision made ? Aunts aren't Gentlemen.


greg

[greenbug]

Panic enticing decision can often bring incorrect judgment. Sometimes its needed and you have to stick to your guns, losing ground or time means losing the battle. At times incorrect judgment, although wrong will bring more favorable results then total loss. But when is the crucial moment? How long can one wait? Does commitment wait for you?

In perception nothing ever ends, perhaps you were already committed and didn't understand. Your choices are perhaps a reflection of a commitment you have already made. A loyalty, duty or pledge that was started by some one else and your only acting as you think they would have. The meaning lost and yet the original commitment lingers.

[Graybeard]

Panic enticing decision can often bring incorrect judgment. Sometimes its needed and you have to stick to your guns, losing ground or time means losing the battle. At times incorrect judgment, although wrong will bring more favorable results then total loss. But when is the crucial moment? How long can one wait? Does commitment wait for you?

In perception nothing ever ends, perhaps you were already committed and didn't understand. Your choices are perhaps a reflection of a commitment you have already made. A loyalty, duty or pledge that was started by some one else and your only acting as you think they would have. The meaning lost and yet the original commitment lingers.

I think the mistake is to think that we have control over the decision ... when we have only slight influence .... the time will come, the moment will pass, and it will be as it will be ... We can only do the best with the influence we have.

If we are wrong that is no cause for regret ....

As well ... Death cancels all obligations ... we owe nothing to the dead despite any requests or promises ... Death cancels ALL obligations placed upon the living. No one rules from the grave. Conditions have changed and old commitments must be dropped regardless of sentiment. Regret is a factory that consumes resources and produces no output.

cool bananas ... greg

[greenbug]

What ever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Regret has its place, however bad times are unwelcome with out it you cant have commitment. That is if every thing is favorable then its not really a commitment is it?

[labelwench]

Life requires commitment, first and foremost, for continuance.

Though we have yet to unravel the origins of life, once bestowed, the gift requires care until the young are mature enough to continue self-maintenance, or not, in the case of individuals who may find the commitment more than they are willing or able to endure.

Commitments, and the challenges and rewards that each may bring, are a part of what defines us as human, and what contributes to making each of us unique.

Perhaps not your kind of music, Greenbug, but the words are quite pertinent to this topic, IMO.

[greenbug]

Thank you labelwench, maternal instincts I guess. Yet a womans take on commitment always seems to differ from a mans.

Being mortal, what we leave behind and how, with such little time, we can convey lessons we have learned is difficult. A commitment provides means so we do not forget, as a commitment is at times repetitive and this is how we learn. This is/has always been my idea of the embodiment of commitment. Why the wise are so wise, because the commitment is a lesson not just some act or feat of strength. This is why, although I don't understand every commitment, I make some commitments. To understand the knowledge behind what others say is the right thing. Because its easy to be impatient and arrogant but sometimes the right thing isn't always the easy thing.

That was a good song, not exactly my kind of music, although every song I write could be put in the same category. A song I wrote last night...

http://www.myspace.com/ovst

last on that list, entitled "I'm selfish"..