Promises, Promises

We make them and we break them, because some promises are hard to keep. Most of the time we know that we will never  keep certain promises, so why do we make them in first place?

We promise when we are happy, feeling positive, optimisic or inspired, but we also make promises to get rid of someone or something. There are some type of promises that we know we’ll never keep, but still say them anyway.

When we meet a new friend during summer, we usually exchange emails and phone numbers with the promise that we will contact and never forget eachother, the beautiful time we had together, etc., etc.. This, of course, won’t happen. NO,NO,NO!

“Your secret is safe with me!” This sentence is useless. In my country, it’s a proverb saying that if your own mouth can’t hide it, than no other mouth can.

Or this one:

“It won’t hurt, I promise” Doctors’ favourite phrase. No! Just, no!

When someone borrows money from us they promise they’ll give you your money back as soon as possible. But then they seem to forget their promise and the worst thing is you can not ask for what’s yours because they will think you’re being mean and unfriendly.

Each time our parents see our grades, we promise to study harder and harder. We promise a milion time, still we keep the promise for only two or three days.

I would like to know why do you think we make promises when we know we probably won't keep them? Do you make any of the above promises? Let me know by commenting below.