Holders.

He (my father) and his 10 siblings were born and raised in the countryside and received strict and harsh upbringings in very difficult times. His father, my grandfather, was, I heard, a very tough man with very strict codes.Many of these codes were used as well by my father in our upbringing.

The true value of words was one of his most valuable lessons to me. My father used to tell me that a man should have only one word, and that it had to be true, definitive, irrevocable, and trustworthy, that in these characteristics lay its greatest value. He was a Holder.

And that one is a lesson I deeply learned and made one of my strictest and inviolable codes. A code I've adopted and been trying to transmit my kids ever since they were born one way or another. Guess that's my role, right?. They making it their own or not, that's something else.

An endangered kind.

Nowadays both, that strict and serious kind of human behavior code and the true value of a man's word facing society or as a way of character expression ,are close to exctintion. It's hard to trust somebody's word these days. Holders are next to extinction and nobody gives a shit.

Just to be clear: I don't mean to deeply and fully trust someone as in best friends or lovers style or anything like that. I mean to trust in the true weight of the given word to stand for the backed up-worded matter.

I know a lot of people that, with an amazing ease, throw away their word as a grantee of any matter and so they are able to assure you and give the solution backed up for their word for granted, with such a conviction face and tone of voice that you get to think you can sit back and rest peacefully to wait for it, cause that person makes you believe that the sky will fall before he fails to his word, and so you sit and wait, at least the first time, you folks know why you sit? Cause you a true valuer and believer of the weight and importance of his word,a the word of a man,you are a Holder and you wrongly assume that the other one, the giver, the one who superficially commits and let the value of his word die in vain, has the same values and follows the same codes than you have and follow.

Then when the time comes to get the awaited response or solution, justifications and lies are what you get, just as a lie was the first given word that worths fucken nothing.
So they go on peacefully through life as if nothing happens, they bloody -unprincipled liars and value of word slayers.

That is unacceptable to me; my word cannot and will not endure such a shame and discredit. We Holders don't allow that to happen.

My precious.

I'm proud of the value my word has among those who really know me and among those who are getting to.
It takes a lot for me to commit and give my word on any matter as simple as it may seems sometimes,well it ain't difficult for me to give it, hell no!!, if I'm completely sure I commit and give it without any second thoughts.
There are some requirements for me to give my word on any matter though.

1. I must be absolutely sure that I will be able to and will keep my word without any possibility of failure.(This is the most important).

Actually there's one and one only requirement...that one above, but from it derives a group of factors that must be fulfilled so that I can reach that security, and those, perhaps, are the most complicated, because I don't like to be superficial in the analysis of a situation or a problem and throw my word into the fire just like that, but I will not bore you with too many details.

Promises are to be fulfilled and a Man's word to be kept.

As I see it, there's no discussion in that matter, there's no other way.

If you, man, cannot fulfill or keep, then don't promise and don't get your word at stake, just don't...

When the true value of a Man's word is lost, the man himself is lost as well.
And that is, at least for me, sad and shameful, my word is my badge, is the voice of my character,...my precious.

Gollum, Gollum, Gollum!!!!...

Just kidding with that Gollum thing.😁

Well, it's really a shame so many people don't value word enough and so they don't teach their children how to properly value it either and that's how everything starts its way down the abyss and in the fall some other values as respect go down as well as colateral casualties in a war as they are hopelessly attached.

For now I've lost hope a bit. I know there are still some alive from the good tribe of word holders though, hope we can hold on and grow back to mayoritie again. Those were good times, don't you think?