2021-018 | COMMITMENT

WISDOM TRAILS: Commitment separates steel from butter. Commitment is the father of integrity. 

When you gave your word you should stand by it regardless of tempests and obstacles. Failing so would tarnish on your character like an ugly scar.

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February 16, 2018

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I AM NOT PERFECT BUT, where it is most possible, I honor commitments. Most of the time, to be accurate. Commitment is something that is not taken seriously nowadays. This honor thing seemed archaic and alien today. In the old days, when you say or promised something, you are bound to stand by it and honor it. It does not need a piece of paper to force you into one.

Commitment, if it is not honored, remains just a broken promise or a falsity. A scam, if you prefer to use this most popular – and hated – word in social networking sites. Honoring a commitment is a product of good breeding. Good breeding is the fruit of the many years of learning noble virtues and good values in life. Not education, wealth and fame. These last three types can choose the wrong side but good breeding would not.

Commitment is a hard yoke on any individual, especially if he or she is a leader or an organizer of events. He would be the first to rise and the last to go home. He would be the earliest at the assembly area and sees to it that everyone has arrived safely to their destinations and homes before he finds his own comfort. Punctuality and efficiency are his domain and pride. So unyielding like Toledo steel. 

You begin to nurture commitment when Righteousness was your guidepost early in life. The kind of righteousness that is not malignant and intolerant of others but the kind that infects the world with its godly restraint and limitless empathy. Something like this Bible verse: “Pursue righteousness and a Godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness” (1 Tim 6:11). 

In this way, you put your commitment in the proper perspective instead of imposing it on others. You can never compare yourself with others and this is where you should shine. However distracting life may be, lead by good example. Let your deeds and actions talk for you. Keep your standards of values at a high level. Show people how and do not dictate or raise a voice.

Commitment is patience. The complete control of your emotions. When people became a pain in the ass, your commitment will place you in direct way of their comfort zones. You will deal with indifference (people who do not mind the time you set); ignorance (people who became indifferent of your time); and arrogance (people who ignore your time). 

When you lead people or organize an event, your commitment to your people and to your activity must be unwavering yet flexible at the same time to dispose properly the dregs that are always found at the bottom of a cup. Nobody is perfect! It is not easy but a lot of people have been in that situation and they loved the challenge.

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Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.