Author:Stacey T Pollock Website:http://creationtheory.weebly.com Category:Self Help Views:126 Syndication:0 Article Submitted On:June 20, 2008 Word Count:1439
Responsibility is one of the biggest issues that we interact with everyday in the world around us. Whether that is concerning the interaction that we have with another person or the way we take on things inside ourselves in our own individual experiences. We are faced with the contemplation of whether to take full responsibility for our own actions or experiences within all that we do, a choice that is determined by how we deal individually with situations. This at times leads to pinpointing real issues that we have inside ourselves and the nature of how we can cope with everyday experiences.
Not everyone can deal with certain circumstances that they come across in life. Sometimes things can seem too big a task to take on that it is a slow process in order to get enthusiasm, not wanting to give full responsibility to the task at hand. This then can at times lead to conflicts and issues between other people when someone does not take on the full responsibility for their own original choices made, especially if they make plans that effects other people involved. It might be because some responsibilities that we take on have not our interest, or desire, and lead us to not finish or rather poorly resolve things we decide to at one time participate in.
What is the basis of this poor judgment on our own part that leads us to make decisions that we cannot fulfill or take full responsibility for?
A good way to see this is in a visual way, by detailing and experience of a person who would come across the same issues. For example, Daniel who has made a decision to help a friend even though he does not know if he has the means in which to deliver his word. His friend is Peter and when he was at the party talking with him last night, he asked him for help on Sunday at his house with some moving of his furniture. What they both do not realize is that already a responsibility has been taken on by both of them in arranging the situation in the first place. Sunday comes and Daniel is late and Peter calls him up to ask if everything is ok. Daniel responds by telling him that he forgot and that he had other plans for the day.
Well this is an obvious a
nd direct representation of responsibility, outwardly seen. Daniel did not keep to his word so then in turn not taking responsibility for what he arranged to do for his friend.
If you think that Peter does not also have a part to play in all of this you are wrong. Peter also has responsibilities of his own. He knew himself earlier that he could arrange to have someone come and move the furniture for him. However now his is stuck with no help at all, because of his need to save money, he has to take responsibility now on his own shoulders. Instead he asked his friend Daniel so he would not have to pay for the costs. Now that he has to rely on his friend it has left him also in a powerless situation, that he himself does not take responsibility for in his own choosing. Peter is angry at his friend now for not being there for him. Should he be angry with himself for not taking his own responsibility for the task he had to get done himself, relying on others to do it for him? If he wants to take the risk to ask someone else for help then his own real answer is to wait patiently to help arrives and not rely on it to bring eventual reward.
This is where the underlying issue of responsibility takes full circle. We all have responsibilities for all the things we do in our lives, no matter what they are, whether they be a word, or an action, or a choice, we take on the full spectrum of the result to all that we participate in. As soon as we give away responsibility to another and rely on them for what we can ourselves achieve, we give away our own control of how we deal with the issue at hand. Then we get angry at the people who do not fulfill our goals to what we desire, when in real truth we should also be viewing ourselves and why we need to ask for help in the first place.
What is not acknowledged is that every single person in life, no matter what they do, have their own unique responsibility to hold within themselves. That responsibility is for t
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