Responsibility

Responsibility can be quite cunning in leaving us thinking we’re the responsible ones – it’s them over there that aren’t doing their bit, whilst leaving us blind to what we’re overlooking and that is usually ourselves.

Responsibility can tie us up in knots. It’s easy to develop strong antennas for others who don’t do their duty, especially when the result of that directly affects us. 

As adults we all have responsibility and most of us take that on willingly; invested in principle and carried out with integrity. The part which often goes unnoticed however is the responsibility that we have to ourselves. We can act as our best friend or worst enemy and in that respect, we shape our perception and how we view things. 

The word ‘responsibility’ can be split in two, signifying ‘response ability’. We all have an ability to respond. This implies free agency. We are free to create our day to day experiences in choosing how we relate and therefore respond to things. 

‘The Cherokee Story’ tells of two wolves that fight inside us; one is bad as it encapsulates anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, ego, inferiority and the other is all that is good, humility, kindness, love, peace, joy. Every day we get to choose which one we feed to make it grow stronger than the other.

Whilst not everything that happens to us in life might be particularly fair or directly our fault, it is always our responsibility to choose how we respond.