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Accountability & Responsibility [1]
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Date: 2025-03-29
We all make decisions, we all make choices, some consciously and some not. I would argue most are not conscious, like wearing a soft color to visit a person that’s ill, we do those kinds of things instinctively because we’ve done them so much.
No matter how our decisions are made though, they are our own. Formed by years of usage or formed by thought and deliberation. In the US we’ve developed this bad habit of shoving the consequences of our choice upon everyone and everything but ourselves. God, the media, elected officials, neighbors, friends, family, the weather, the moon and peer pressure.
It doesn’t matter how one makes a decision, nor does it matter who or what influences them, the cold hard fact is that the choice and the consequences are yours to take responsibility for. Excuses are for children, but children need to be taught to grow out of them and be held accountable for their actions also. That’s why we have discipline.
Until you learn to take accountability for your choices, you will never grow (evolve), growth and knowledge come from making mistakes but most importantly from fixing your mistakes. But Americans as a demographic do not easily admit to making mistakes let alone fixing them. It is always someone else’s fault. Unless you’re 10 the “my parents treated me badly” excuse expires upon adulthood. Having been abused as a child is not an excuse to abuse your own children (most abused people do not in fact abuse their children).
The reasons people do not take responsibility for their actions and choices are usually childish “they made me do it” for example. The actions themselves are also done under childish compulsions “revenge, impulsivity, naivete, to fit in, to be liked, trendy etc.…”.
Americans need to grow out of their prolonged childhood. History is ugly, refusing to acknowledge history or expecting it to be a recount of your heroic exploits only is childish. Rejecting learning on the premise that it will make you uncomfortable is beyond childish, all the progress ever made in any field were made because someone was uncomfortable. Need is the mother of creativity and invention.
Choices and decisions are not to be made on a whim, one must reflect, analyze, and weigh the likely outcomes before making such decisions. One does not go through life blaming others for getting in their way when they stepped on their foot because one was not paying attention.
Every single choice or decision has a consequence attached to it, whether it is bad or good depends on how much you pondered said choice or decision, it’s like baking, you have all your ingredients at your disposal, but, how you mix them, dose them, cook them on those depend how your dish will taste at the end.
The more important a decision, the more time you should spend researching all possible outcomes of your choice.
#ThePoet
Muriel Vieux – March 29th, 2025, ©All rights reserved
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