Commitment - Question for 11/17/12

What is a commitment?

An intention that is fixed, is a commitment as so far as it remains fixed. Before a commitment exists it must emerge as an intention. It can emerge from desire, or thinking of ends which bring about desire.

Desires may be connected back to need, but when they are connected to wants they take on more variation. We know that intention is biological and material, and a compact relation exists between the two, a relation that permits for mental and material fulfillment.

The intention becomes fixed as it occupies the time of the person, in their life. It exists in the mind till it is fulfilled or dropped. Example: John commits to not eating a certain amount of carbs daily. This intention as a commitment is long-lasting, but only so far as it continues to what is thought. The commitment becomes a part of a person's actual life, meaning that it causes the existence of the peron.

We could compare two people, and observe one with commitment and one without, and in doing so observe how the commitment itself effects the person.

A commitment is similar in nature, to obsession or even addiction, as it can take control of the life which contains and acts for the commitment.

The commitment is either:
1) For self for x.
2) For other for x.

The request for x can become a commitment. This means that a person is a result of for, a person can be x, by being the for, the cause of x. Just as materials can be for a result people can be used for a result. This is using a thing/person to achieve end and actuality.

The request causes the desire to emerge in the one or the other, if it doesn't this is because it does not cause desire, and thereby is rejected for some subconscious reason(s).  In this way person A can promise person B a thing for their actions. This creates two possible commitment: Person A doing x, for B, and person B giving or doing y for A, after or before A does x. In this way commitment might be disguised what might be called a favor.

When something interferes with commitment, the interfering variable may cause the commitment to be lost, or through conformity to commitment the intention is continued, none-the-less.