Pledge

Last night, I made a pledge to someone.

I wasn’t anticipating this happening, yet it felt like the absolute right thing to do.  I don’t often make pledges.  I offer assistance in a rather informal way, or I’ll even promise to help someone.  But this was different.  Perhaps because it was a two way pledge, to offer assistance to the other in the event certain things that have been forseen come to pass.  Perhaps because this is about more than just talking about things and will involve action.  Maybe it just tapped into the Marine in me which resonates deeper than simply helping someone with some personal problems.  In any case, it feels very real and very deep.

I feel like I’m heading towards something completely unanticipated that I can’t see.  It doesn’t negate anything else I’m heading towards, just that this is going to be a short detour at some point.  But, it seems to be pretty far in the future, so I’m not going to try to figure it out too much and just see what comes.  I have immediate things to create first.