Responsibility

Here's another selection from ten years ago. I was doing some thinking then. I truly believed what I wrote and still do and probably could add another decade of experience to it. This was when I started to grow and let go of the past. It has been a ardorous journey and every day is a new adventure.

Responsibility

Responsibility, there is a double edged word. As children we wish for resposibility as adults responsibility can be a royal pain in the ass.

I think the most important type of responsibility is the responsibility we have to ourselves. It is so easy to look away from the reality and make our own world to live in. Our actions deserve responsibility of ourselves. The important word is ours. Mine not your actions. As thinking individuals we make choices. I believe 98% of the time our decisions good or bad are those of our own device.

Then why do we choose to ignore consequences? Most likely it is a protective mechanism we use as we grow older, something to keep us from harm. As young children it could be a learning step until the first white lie begins. From this point on it may become an escape from consquences.

As maturity approaches the hardest lesson to learn is we are responsible for ourselves. What we do and how we respond shapes us and our reality. One doesn't go around with perfect adherence to this principle but respecting yourself enough to accept responsibility for ones actions can be the first step to achieving inner peace.