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I'm not married yet, but I'm surrounded by married men and women, and I learned a lot from those marriages. Some of them are happy ones, some not so much. I know that it takes more than love to make a marriage work. In fact, I don't think love is needed to make a marriage. This needs more commitment, above all things. Commitment makes you able to compromise, willing to understand, ready to forgive.
Any relationship, be it personal or professional, needs commitment to make it last.
So I know that commitment is important. It's basically what makes the world goes round. We won't have schools if we don't have teachers who are committed to their work. There will be no hospitals if doctors won't commit their lives to the lives of other people, often times forgetting their own lives. And there will be no countries if some people are not committed to govern other people and try to establish some order in the society.
The thing is, once you're committed to commitment, it's easy for you to forget why you're doing it in the first place. Commitment becomes an obligation, but the kind that does not fulfill and never succeeds in making us truly happy. Life goes on, but it won't be worth living.
People say yes a lot to a lot of things. Many times they know that commitment comes with it, and they do it. But along the way they forget that love has to be there, too.
