Your Word Means Nothing If You Don’t Keep It
There is a quiet but devastating truth that sits at the core of human relationships, institutions, and even our sense of self: your word does not mean shit if you don’t keep it. This isn’t a moral platitude or a dramatic overstatement. It’s a structural reality. Promises are the invisible scaffolding that hold together trust, cooperation, intimacy, and social order. When words are broken, something foundational cracks—not always loudly, not always immediately, but inevitably. Over […]










