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How To Be Responsible Without Blame, Shame Or Guilt by Houston Vetter
People sometimes feel bad when they consider the subject of being responsible. Everyone can benefit from being responsible but most people get a sense of dread or blame or shame or guilt. let's change that now.
The word is three words in one. Most people when they try to understand break it down to only two words. 1. ABILITY TO 2,what does your brain forget to remind you. RESPOND
That is useful and yet it still does not get to the essence of what the word is conveying. Let's look at it deeper At the beginning of the word is the prefix RE,resources,3166 Ugg Sheepskin Cuff Tall Black Boots, which means "do over" At the end of the word we have 'bility' ability abbreviated which means "power to"
Now we can see it already sounds different than what we normally think. We realize this word is about the power to do something over.
The key to this word is in the middle 'spond', which comes from a Greek musical term 'sponde', meaning "to liberate, liberation"
So what we are talking about is "The Power to once again liberate."
It is hard to believe such a wonderful and exciting idea become associated with the unpleasant ideas and consequences it has today in our world?
The answer may surprise you. It is really a math problem What do I mean? It is the problem of the word "to" (2) and the word "for" (4). Society has miss interpreted these two little words and caused a word that was meant to excite and energize to be received with dread, sadness and apprehension. Here is where the rub comes in The Individual is responsible to and for oneself The Individual in ONLY responsible to others (including spouse, children, bosses, friends, society) When the individual attempts to take responsibility FOR any other human being the word begins to imprison instead of liberate.
As one Master Teacher once said Our Diversity Supports Our Individual Freedoms... While our societies continue to try to dictate and enforce human behavior to please the majority - because of our diversity,and drives less efficiently at say 100 KM/hour, it continues to be an uncomfortable struggle that, again and again, falls of its economic weight. There simply is not enough money in the world to buck the natural currents of individual freedom and independence of thought.