I swear...

'God Promise teacher, I did my homework, but I forgot to bring it to school...'

            - rings me bells of my childhood when we (me and my fraternities) used to swear on all possible creatures to convince somebody. Swearing on God was supposed to be the ultimate swear. There were other promises too - Mother promise, Father promise, Granny promise and at times promise on favourite dish too.

I will tell you the way these promises used to work (or supposed to). If I swear on God, it meant that if I lie, God will die or will destroyed. But since God was supposed to be the immortal, God promise lost its value in the way. So, to retain the seriousness, the promise slowly started getting linked with the most important people of the subject.

Theres something called Pinky Promise - an act of hooking pinky fingers together to seal a promise. And this is how the lock looks.

Of all the promises, I feel the most valuable promise is to be true to one's self. One can anytime break the promise and fool others, but you know the real value of breaking a promise when you fool yourself :)