Promises/Promisses

I've had some pretty weird dreams in my life.

I've watched them unravel and thought,

"What the heck is going on in my subconscious?!"

In a few of my dreams, my family or friends have been killed off.

Worst. Dreams. Ever.

But I've noticed something in all of them:
some sort of promise was made and then broken.

I had this dream where I made a promise to a friend and another friend made the same promise to a friend. And this promise was all fine and dandy until it conflicted with destiny, if you'll allow that word.

I got to thinking about these dreams and the promises that represented real promises in our friendship.

By pinky swearing to do or not do something, are we robbing ourselves of that experience?

Does the person understand that by making you promise, they could be effecting your "destiny"?

You have the free will to make the decision to break the promise or to act upon the feelings you have, but that's a tough situation. Even hypothetically.

Talk about a rock and a hard place!

So, what would you do in that situation?