Did you make any promises to yourself as a child?

Deus Ex Machina · 16-05-2010 04:06PM #1

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 · 16-05-2010 04:16PM

No

Mr Benevolent · 16-05-2010 04:19PM

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

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 16-05-2010 04:46PM

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 · 16-05-2010 04:52PM

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

r3nu4l · 16-05-2010 05:00PM

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 · 16-05-2010 05:38PM

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 · 16-05-2010 05:43PM

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 · 16-05-2010 05:54PM

Learn proper speeling or grammer,

pikachucheeks · 16-05-2010 06:05PM

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 · 16-05-2010 06:10PM

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.

16-05-2010 07:11PM

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 · 16-05-2010 07:32PM

To never be on the dole

Archeron · 16-05-2010 07:33PM

To kill Jaws

Archeron · 16-05-2010 07:34PM

Archeron wrote: »

To kill Jaws

The shark, not the bond character

bazmaiden · 16-05-2010 07:36PM

Archeron wrote: »

To kill Jaws

I read that as jews first!!

MmmmmCheese · 16-05-2010 07:38PM

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

Midnight_EG · 16-05-2010 08:11PM

I promised myself I'd be a good Dad

Still a ways off that though, only 18 :P

Quackles · 16-05-2010 08:28PM

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

Novella · 16-05-2010 08:28PM

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 · 16-05-2010 08:40PM

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 · 16-05-2010 08:43PM

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 · 16-05-2010 08:54PM

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 · 16-05-2010 08:55PM

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 · 16-05-2010 09:08PM

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 · 16-05-2010 09:11PM

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 · 17-05-2010 12:26PM

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

Man, that got deep & depressing really quickly.

up for anything · 17-05-2010 01:01PM

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 · 17-05-2010 01:03PM

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

WindSock · 17-05-2010 01:11PM

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 · 17-05-2010 01:21PM

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?

Did you make any promises to yourself as a child?

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