Commitment is a duty, loyalty or obligation to someone or something outside of self. Examples of this are the rent or mortgage we pay, the marriage vows we make, the laws of the community or group we belong to, the contracts of any kind even though they may be sealed only by a handshake.
Discipline, however, is an inner process which defines the effort to meet those commitments. This could be physical or mental. This could be conditioning like the cycles that establish the Pavlonian response to certain keys or triggers. But, in any case, the strength of the commitment is only as much as the discipline to honor that commitment.
I knew a woman once who would only relate to guys who were alcoholic in nature. She married an alcoholic... divorced and then married another alcoholic although she herself was not alcoholic. It seemed that her relationships were always doomed to fail since alcoholics in a sense are only commited to alchol. Perhaps, in a way, she herself was the one who could not commit and entered into relationships that she could withdraw from without any onus on her part. It makes one think...'who is the real culprit sometimes?'.
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