know that twelve years later, we’d have to defend that promise against fear and other people’s assumptions.
But I’m glad we kept it.
Because some promises are worth keeping—not because they are easy, but because they remind us who we were before the world taught us to overthink everything.
And that night, standing beside my best friend under the lights, I realized something else:
Sometimes the smallest promise you make as a child can become one of the most meaningful memories of your life.
