A Promise Is Made, A Protector I Become

People change. That much is truth. I have changed significantly from the person I was 10, even 5 years ago. Back then, I wanted to change into a person who was more open to others, someone who didn't bottle things up so much. I also wanted to be stronger, and if you knew me that long ago, you can understand why. So, with those things in mind, I made a promise to myself: I will change into the very model of the person whom I want to become one day. And, as you can figure, I have changed into that person almost completely, as the process is still on-going.

Now that I have become stronger, I wanted to take another step forward in a direction and on a path that is full of risks and danger. So (and this was recently), I made to myself another promise: I want to use my stregth to protect the people whom I care about the most. Now that alone seems like a big promise to keep, so you would think I would have stopped there. Wrong. I made another, and extremely HUGE promise (which was actually more of a vow): I will use my strength to protect as many people as I possibly can. Even I thought that this was way too big of a promise to keep. But I felt that God gave me some reason to make that promise. I believe that it may be part of His unforseen plan (of course). Perhaps God wants me to protect others so that I may learn about self-sacrifice, which is something I defintely need to practice more. But I don't feel that it was forced upon me, since I made that promise myself. Because, if I aim to protect as many people as I possibly can, then it's likely that I'll be able to protect the people who truely matter to me even better. Even if it was just for one person for which I made this promise (which actually, it is, but they don't know about it, yet), I would follow it through, until it was complete, or for the rest of my life. And so, I feel that God has given me a job, or better yet, more like a mission, and with that mission, a title: I will be a Protector (Actually, if I was to choose the title, but having it being closely related to the first one, I would choose being called this: a Guardian. Heh, maybe a "Guardian Angel" perhaps? Maybe, but whatever, just "Guardian" suits me.)

So, in conclusion, I'll end with a quote from one of my favorite band's songs: "People change, but a promise stays the same." And as for promise, it will stay the same, forever and always (or, for at least however long it needs to stay the same).