In an age when relationships are no longer based on geography, what binds us together? One thing is the commitments we make to each other. The committment to our children to raise them as best we can. The commitment to our chosen life partner. The commitments we make to the organizations we join. And the commitments we make to those we call friend or family of choice. All together they form a web of oaths of which we are the center. Each persons web is as unique as they are.
In addition to those we have oathed to, those who we share the strongest ties also share the ties of our oaths. When my partner takes on a new commitment, to a lessor extent so do I. It is in all of this that we are bound together.
There was a popular movie years back talked about each person being connected to any other by just six steps or degrees. These steps are taken across our web of oaths.
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