Keeping One's Word

Keeping your word is important. To me, maybe overly important. I remember my father walking away, when I was 6, saying he would come back, and he never did. He never came back. So now, when someone says they will do something, and they don't, it reminds me of my 6 year old self, looking out the window, everyday for the next 13 years, waiting for my father to come back. 

Simply because he said he would. 

I am 49 now and still find myself sitting there, looking out the window. Childhood things, yes. Habit.