Responsibility

Let’s talk about responsibility.

The path to meaning in life is personal responsibility for ourselves, warts and all.

This does not mean taking on the burden of responsibility for others’ actions. This means owning our emotions and perspective as we experience the world. Even when others do something to us.

We do not take responsibility for the actions of others, if we do then we become the scapegoat.

We do not put the responsibility of our emotions on others, if we do then we become the eternal victim.

Victims have no power.

We take our power back by accepting the responsibility of our own emotions, we have them and they are ours. It does not matter what inspired them, good or ill, they are ours.

This is how we move mountains; this is how we find meaning and belonging. We must first belong to ourselves.