There is a question, many questions that can be linked with commitment in general...

What is it that holds the relationships between people, friends, partners, men and women, thousands of them? Why is there often a feeling that someone is "using" the other, or at the best that they are "equally using each other" for their interests? Something similar can happen with friendships. The connection becomes the line of exchange and then it broaden, but in most cases it becomes the highway or a railway with so huge traffic on it that the noise is making you leave, loosing the point of what was it for at the first place, and search for the "greener pastures" as we say But the question is why and have we wasted all grass like that already?

Harmony with nature, what is more natural for any being than to achieve that? But at the same time what is more missing in our culture than that? Harmony with true human nature is subject of cultural diversity of the ways how life should be lived. And sometimes some values or false values seem to stand in opposition. Why so, when all the values of each culture are there to support one value, core value, that is human Life? Survival and growth.

Doesn't that value imply the pact of nonviolence with the cause, not because we fear something might happen to us too, but for the good cause? To support Life. To make foundation for the future that is to come. Why do we mostly fear of future when it is the best thing we have, and maybe the only thing we might have - the future ahead? Why do we tend to contaminate everything with our doubts and fears of the past? Why in the end we come to the point of doubt in the primary value - human life?

Imagine a field where two people or many people meet, and stroll together and after some time they build a path and then they can still rest by it, or cultivate their garden together, spreading it, making new paths... having some sense in caring and following what's going on, but then one day you open your eyes and see that there's just too much of wasted ground under your feet. What has happened to the garden?

If too many people come to that place it is more likely that they will not contribute but on the contrary, the whole field will look like a stadium after the football match, the grass wasted after the concert in the open air. What has happened? Too much emotions? Or too much of neglecting the true sense or the meaning of that gathering. If it was just to pass some time, the time will pass after and the ground will heal, it will be ready for the new gardeners.

The same way people are building and destroying their culture and civilizations that have collapsed were overstepped by the feet of those who are numerous, uncaring, ignorant or just too impatient to wait and see, those who want everything and want that now, those who haven't felt that responsibility for building something that is in their hands, along the timeline, during their life time and to be continued afterwards.

The repression from one hand is making the release of uncontrolled energy from the other side. Who is setting up and who is following the rules? Can we say that we can commit and from that from there we feel we are getting the power, not the power of the other one nor even the power of God, which is omnipresent, but feel the power of that commitment made to each other and to our selves, for if we, humans are not being of commitment we still may be any of the animals that struggle to survive. Commitment vs. survival? No, but the commitment as a form of survival of humanity.

Who can commit to something that he or she will do like that no matter what? If the faith is backboned with commitment and the commitment backed up with faith, there is no stronger bond. At the same time it is not enough to have a will, nor passion only, nor talent nor desire only, the plan or thought, The commitment is the action of a whole being, and it should be learned. Maybe the highest wisdom and the highest art is knowing how to commit to something and in doing so realizing yourself as a human being? Whatever it may happen to be.

Sometimes our best commitment is made to the unknown, to the future and unpredictability, to life as we may grasp its meaning and value, and produce a new quality of truth out of it. Thus we sometimes might not know or fully articulate our true commitment because it is not just what we said by words. Nor even deeds. It spans over whole lifetime, just in the end we will know, and maybe not even then, but that doesn’t minimize the truth and quality of our commitment.

Being committed and knowing it, working on it and not necesserily even naming it, is making the center of our being whole, holy and respected, respectful for the others, patient to wait for the time to show its forms and grateful for each revelation on that way.