The Innocent Promise

I wanna live next to your house, and my wife will befriend your wife!

Wow, sound so nice, eh? It was a promise that I pledged together with my best friend (the one I mentioned in the previous post) during our elementary school time. A very naive and innocent promise. Now that we recalled the promise, we realized that fulfilling that would almost be one in a million. Yes, nothing impossible with my wife befriend his wife, but living next to his house? Well, that was very foolish of us to make that up.

This posting came out after conversation with Cing regarding our reminisce of past. A time when we still saw the world through the child's eyes. Black and white, with no gray area seen. And as adult, we tend to position ourselves within that gray area. According to Cing, though foolish, a childhood promise is the purest one. We made the promise under no influence from other people, under no interference of strict norms and values.

Cing herself made a promise with Git, her best friend then. They vowed to live together, remain unmarried, and take care one another. Wow! She told me that she had no idea of lesbianism then, know nothing that the action might lead people around them accusing them as a lesbian rather than as best friends. Now that she recalled the promise, she laughed out loud. Things have changed, and it is almost impossible to do that. Git remains as a favourite girl among boys.

However, it was the trace of our innocence. The era when we were spontaneous and short-thinking. The product of our over affection and naivette, but at the same time, it is also the reflection of our purity and pristinity.

I believe, that many other people out there might also make such promises with their best friend. And it is not a wrongdoing to revisit our past, returning to innocence. So, I would like to hear some of your "innocent promises" you made with your best friend from childhood. If you care to write them as a comment, I would gladly appreciate it.