Did you make any promises to yourself as a child?

Deus Ex Machina

I found out recently that a guy I was friendly with in primary school killed himself. I had lost touch with him, but it was obviously still quite a horrible thing to hear. As you would expect it started me thinking about the days we shared, and I remembered quite vividly him telling me that no matter how bad things got in his life, he would never kill himself.

I doubt his thoughts were of those days with whatever it was that forced him to take his life obviously at the forefront of his mind, but it made me wonder about my own promises, and what it might take to make me break them.

Did you make promises to yourself? Did you keep them?

plein de force

No

Mr Benevolent

Promises to yourself? This isn't the movies you know.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I promised to not drink or smoke until I was 21 so I could get extra money at confirmation :P

I done well, 3 years :P

Dont be at yourself

I promised not to read this thread, and I regret breaking that promise.

r3nu4l

I don't remember it but apparently I told my parents when I was small that I was going to live in a house with bay windows (rounded bays).

25 years later...I live in a house with rounded bay windows!!

It must have seriously ingrained itself somewhere in my subconcious because I still don't remember saying it. :eek:

tman

After seeing first hand the damage that infidelity can do to a family, I vowed to always be faithful to whoever I was seeing.

I was only a little kid at the time, but I've stuck with it and intend to for the rest of my life:)

Kasabian

I promised myself I would never treat women like I had seen them treated as I grew up.

So they have walked all over me

Reg'stoy

Learn proper speeling or grammer,

pikachucheeks

I promised I'd never smoke and years later, I've never even tried it ... but on the other hand, I also said I'd never dye my hair

AckwelFoley

When i was a child i promised myself i would never be afraid of the boogy man.

Years later it turns out i am the boogy man.

Boo.

r3nu4l

r3nu4l wrote: »

I don't remember it but apparently I told my parents when I was small that I was going to live in a house with bay windows (rounded bays).

I don't think this was a promise to myself as a child but since I was a child I've always wanted a bay window to put the christmas tree in - like in the movies :pac:

I've got my bay window too

bazmaiden

To never be on the dole

Archeron

To kill Jaws

Archeron

Archeron wrote: »

To kill Jaws

The shark, not the bond character

bazmaiden

Archeron wrote: »

To kill Jaws

I read that as jews first!!

MmmmmCheese

I said to myself that I'd never smoke......That promise went out the window somewhere along the way.

Midnight_EG

I promised myself I'd be a good Dad



Still a ways off that though, only 18 :P

Quackles

To do up a double decker bus like a camper van and drive around like in Summer Holiday. Anyone selling?

Novella

I think I was a pretty strange child! I wrote myself a book of things to do when I was a grown up :pac: It went along the lines of, "Don't talk too much on the phone, always remember how fun Barbies are" :rolleyes: I'm doing okay so far, hate phone calls and Barbies aren't so bad either!

I_am_LOST

When I was in 1st year in school I was nowhere near as pretty as all the other girls in my year. I was a late developer and had a chest as flat as a pancake! I made a promise to myself that if by the time I was 18 I still wasn't happy with my looks and if I didnt get boobs, I'd get plastic surgery!

What a silly promise lol

Don't know how I expected to afford it

Midnight_EG

I_am_LOST wrote: »

When I was in 1st year in school I was nowhere near as pretty as all the other girls in my year. I was a late developer and had a chest as flat as a pancake! I made a promise to myself that if by the time I was 18 I still wasn't happy with my looks and if I didnt get boobs, I'd get plastic surgery!

What a silly promise lol

Don't know how I expected to afford it

Hello Miss, this is the After Hours Enforcement Agency.

As is standard procedure, Tits, or kindly GTFO.

Yours, AHEA.

ShagNastii

Might not be along the line of what the OP means but little shagnastii promised when he was bigger and earned loads of money he'd go to Wrestlemania.

I've grown out of wrestling since then but when wrestlemania comes to London(surely within the next ten years) I'm 100% sure me and my mates, who watched hulk hogan and bret hart years ago, will be the first to buy tickets. Childhood reunion i guess.

biko

When I lived in Derry in 1957 there was suddenly a spate of killings one summer and some friends and me managed to fight this clown, only it wasn't a clown, that killed my baby brother.
We then all left Derry except for Mike who stayed behind and became the librarian.
Before we left we all swore that if the monster ever returned we would all come back to fight it again.
Many years later, in 1984, Mike rang us all as the killings had started again.
We all returned to fight and this time kill the monster.

almostnever

After my physics exam last year, I promised myself I'd never let myself feel that way after an exam again. It's not looking good, but hopefully I can keep my promise this time around.

There are others of course, but some are really personal.

ToniTuddle

I promised myself I would get a good job and save up loads of money to look after my family.


>.<

I'm in the process of making that happen just gonna take another few years.

CrazyRabbit

I never expected to survive to adulthood, so never made any promises to myself.

Man, that got deep & depressing really quickly.

up for anything

biko wrote: »

When I lived in Derry in 1957 there was suddenly a spate of killings one summer and some friends and me managed to fight this clown, only it wasn't a clown, that killed my baby brother.
We then all left Derry except for Mike who stayed behind and became the librarian.
Before we left we all swore that if the monster ever returned we would all come back to fight it again.
Many years later, in 1984, Mike rang us all as the killings had started again.
We all returned to fight and this time kill the monster.

What are you on about?

Banned Account

My parole terms would not allow me to make promises to children:(

WindSock

I remember when I was around 4 or 5 I said to my mam that I am going to have loads and loads of children and I will never give out to them, even if they killed somebody :eek:
Thankfully I didn't manage to get myself onto Jeremy Kyle just yet.

stovelid

biko wrote: »

When I lived in Derry in 1957 there was suddenly a spate of killings one summer and some friends and me managed to fight this clown, only it wasn't a clown, that killed my baby brother.
We then all left Derry except for Mike who stayed behind and became the librarian.
Before we left we all swore that if the monster ever returned we would all come back to fight it again.
Many years later, in 1984, Mike rang us all as the killings had started again.
We all returned to fight and this time kill the monster.

Cujo elaborate a bit more?

Standard Toaster

To become an octopus so I could hug ten people at a time!

I was an idiot child

D1976

biko wrote: »

When I lived in Derry in 1957 there was suddenly a spate of killings one summer and some friends and me managed to fight this clown, only it wasn't a clown, that killed my baby brother.
We then all left Derry except for Mike who stayed behind and became the librarian.
Before we left we all swore that if the monster ever returned we would all come back to fight it again.
Many years later, in 1984, Mike rang us all as the killings had started again.
We all returned to fight and this time kill the monster.

Poor Georgie, he loved those balloons

r3nu4l

stovelid wrote: »

Cujo elaborate a bit more?

I believe it happened near the Pet cemetary, I had insomnia at the time, so did my friends Carrie and Christine.

Fago!

Standard Toaster wrote: »

To become an octopus so I could hug ten people at a time!

I was an idiot child

Hahaha. Brilliant.

Tar.Aldarion

To not get those stupid girl cooties.

fail.

Sykk

I promised myself I'd play inter county level GAA: Check
I'd grow up to be really successful: Not going too bad
I wouldn't ever smoke: Check
I'd always keep in contact with my friends: Nope

That's about the height of it!

PeterIanStaker

Honestly no. I lost interest in promising myself stuff after I found out you couldn't become a Ninja Turtle:mad:

hobochris

No Fat Chicks!

Tar.Aldarion

*before 2am

Midnight_EG

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

To not get those stupid girl cooties.

fail.

All that, then you turned into one

drunkymonkey

When i was about 8 or 9 i always promised to my mum that if i needed glasses when i was older that i was getting contact lenses because i thought glasses were seen as uncool and none of the tough guys in movies ever wore them!

16 years later i have glasses but only rarely ware them....

(I realized superman wore them and he's a tough guy! :P )

Lemegeton

growing up me and my siblings had **** all and my parents barely managed financially to raise us, put us through school etc.. I made a promise to myself when i was growing up that i would never let that happen to my kids. I am not going to start a family unless i can provide for them and not be worrying about the mortage payment month after month.

stovelid

Lemegeton wrote: »

I am not going to start a family unless i can provide for them and not be worrying about the mortage payment month after month.

Can you let me in on your secret of making such accurate predictions of the next 18 years?