Personal Responsibility

Whose Fault is it really?

When did it become acceptable or fashionable to try and blame the things going on in your life on someone or something else? Who started it? How does it keep going? When is it going to stop?

When you were going up as a small child and you did something wrong and you were being questioned by your mother and father as to the facts of the situation, you did your very best to convince them that you had nothing to do with what ever happened. They didn’t let you get away with “passing the buck” even if you were in the right doing it in the first place. They wanted you to learn Personal Responsibility.

Today in the same situation some mothers and fathers would quite probably agree with you (as the child) that it wasn’t your fault but the actions of others that caused the situation in the first place, causing you to make a choice that you should have been force to make. And that you were not only, not responsible but the victim of the situation. And it could very well escalate to a legal situation and the other person either not being able to defend themselves or not wanting to escalate the matter further  will accept responsibility just to put it behind them and get on with their lives. The Lesson? “It wasn’t your fault it was them not you”.

Even in Sports or Athletics parents no longer teach that hard work, determination and practice are the keys to success an every own and then the other team does win. Now some little leagues don’t even keep score and everyone gets a trophy.  Then as an adult you are told by some of those in elected office “It takes a Village” or to relinquish your rights and responsibility and let the school teach the morality and life lessons. So the national organizations like the NEA and the Dept. of Education will gladly take over and “teach” your children. And your children under penalty of failing grades and/or expulsion will have to endure the doctrine of what those people think your children should know. And If you object “why there is something wrong with you” and you “must be punished and forced into compliance”.

So again “when is it going to stop”? You personally, and as a parent must realize that each on of your actions has consequences and the only person responsible is “you”. You and you alone have the God given right and ability of “free will” that enable to you make choices, “Your Own Choices” and sometimes they may not be the choices that you will like but they will be “your” choices and no one can make them for you. Once you make your choice you alone are responsible.

You have to be responsible for your own choices.

D.H. Cook