Monday, January 09, 2006

Commitment

Recently on New Year's eve, I had been to a club in New York on Times Square. It was a great time; I started of the year feeling great, in the after glow of getting a request for a dance from a pretty lady. A complete stranger on the dance floor asked me for a dance. I relented for a single dance and ended up dancing for two songs one with her and one with her and her friend. The dance and my thoughts during and after the dance forced me to think about loyalty and infidelity. When my friends got to know about it, the first response was we knew you couldn’t be committed and loyal. I was like wow wow hold on for a second, when did this become an incident of infidelity. Even my woman was like, it better have stopped at just a dance. What I did was not a pointer or precursor to anything. All I did was have a plain simple dance with two pretty women and suddenly it was a topic of my loyalty.
Commitment is a very strong word. It depicts the difference between humans and animals. Humans have the capacity to be committed to something/anything. I define commitment as a choice I make, a choice I made to love or do something among the options I have. The difficulty in being committed to anything is because I need to make the same choice every single time I encounter a situation to choose.
When the walls start closing in, the choices made is what decides whether I'm committed or not.