Promises, Promises

I think the world would just be a better place if people didn’t make promises.  Because they can rarely keep them.  Take marriage for example—that’s basically a promise that you’re going to stay together forever and love each other and be faithful and whatever.  But at least fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce.  Another example, parents promise stupid things to their children, like gifts or special events, but rarely follow through and claim that they never promised in the first place.  People make promises to their friends that they don’t keep.  Workers make promises to their employers that they don’t keep—but then they often get fired.  Maybe, if people quit making promises that they can’t keep, there would be a lot more disappointment in the world and everyone wouldn’t be so pissed off all the freaking time.  Or maybe, and this is probably a long shot, but maybe if people would get their effing acts together and only make the promises they knew for a fact that they could keep—maybe then people would stop fighting and there could be some semblance of peace among the human race.