“they broke their word.””
Words - very important to God, yet many people don’t take them seriously.
I’m with Trump on this. I’ve been learning this recently. If some one doesn’t keep their word with me once, maybe twice, that’s it. I can’t give them my time.
I’ll hope and pray for them to change that bad habit/repeated choosing, it shows they don’t respect themselves enough to keep their word, they dishonor themselves and God more importantly than even their disrespect for me/people.
“If some one doesn’t keep their word with me once, maybe twice, that’s it. I can’t give them my time.”
That’s a big, big thing with me. Very big. And it’s very egalitarian, too. Because even a person of limited means can give their word and fulfill it. Or not. If it takes someone 2 hours to meet you at a specified time and place, then if they need to leave 2:30 early, they do. It may be a lot harder for such a person to fulfill their words than a person with great wealth. I have had almost nothing at certain times in my life, but if I said I was to be at a place at a time, I made damned sure I was. I am very insistent upon that and it’s an important test, if you will, as far as I am concerned. For one thing, it’s unequivocal. 2 o’clock is 2 o’clock. It’s nobody’s opinion or sob story.
Because if they are not timely and it is OK with you, then by default and by definition, they are performing the reciprocal test on you. And will in my experience fail to fulfill in future encounters.
It has also been my experience that people who are a PITA on the first encounter are sure to be PITAs on the middle encounters and PITAs on the last encounter you will agree to do with them.