Honor Your Commitments

So, maybe you agreed to do something for someone, say, help your friend move furniture to their new place of residence, and then decided later to resign from your commitment to the task.  Or perhaps you stated that you would love to volunteer to help distribute food at the local chili feed to bring generosity and compassion to people.  And again, you refrained from following through.  Why bother anyway? And to that I ask the same question.  Why bother?  Why bother to define a commitment and later bow out?  Maybe you are a real turdian specimen and would rather delight in your video games, Netflix, or an afternoon of insatiable wanking (which might be more satiable if you'd leave it alone for a bit you animal). Hopefully you don't fall into this category and you are instead in a camp of non-understanding gravity of holding yourself to your word.  My writing this is for either camp you fall into.

So about three quarters of an eon ago, there was written a set of nine attributes that if exercised, would render a person worth at least the air they breathe as well as the dirt they stand on. This set of nine basic rules are known now as the nine noble virtues from which I would like to borrow some concepts that you the reader might find both meaningful and attainable.  

Honor - You keep your name in good standing with your kindred and your peers by resolving your oaths

Fidelity - You are true to your peers and kindred and those with whom you have committed service

Discipline - You do what is necessary and right by your own accord

Courage - You face your fears.

These four of the nine virtues pertain the closest to this subject which are to tackle at this time.  

The reasons are many for why a person should follow through on their word which include but are not limited to peer rapport, self-esteem, building strong character traits, exercising discipline, opportunities (for growth, for advancement, maybe finding a love interest so you don't have to wank all afternoon). All this and more can be gained for your situation by way of follow through.  

If you were say, a concrete worker, and your teammates need you to be present in order for the tasks to be completed with maximum efficiency so that the project can be done in proper pace and sequence, and you chose not to go to work, you might catch some words from them.  By not showing up to the job you cause consequences for each member of the crew who now has to in part adopt and integrate your process congruently to their own process to get the job done.  This adds both time and effort to each of their equations which could and should result in a loss of perceived dependability, respectability, and definitely promotability on your part.  Not conducive to your rapport among your peers, or opportunities for advancement, and definitely not building strong character that might have bolstered your own confidence and discipline.  

Honoring your commitments is just as much for you as it is for others with whom you pledge service to and a stance of passivity will lose you more than it will gain.  Your reputation is at stake as well as the evidence of your agency.  If you think of everything as being akin to a muscle (and pretty much all behavioral and neurological things are) than you know that you must exercise the traits you wish to have.  Confident people are well developed in being confident through trial and error as well as amassing a pile of evidence that they are indeed worthy of respect.  Courageous people are no different, they don't lack fear, they have built a mountain of evidence that they can slay dragons or tie steel or show up to the community chili feed to be of service to others.  

Have fidelity in your conduct and it will pay in spades.  Have courage in your conduct and it will open doors for you as well as others.  Have the discipline to do what is right over what is easy and it will strengthen your baseline propensity to excel in the items above.  Honor your commitments because your conduct will inevitably be tied to your name which will follow you wherever you go 

I'll leave you with this, A flake is third cousins to a liar.