We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.
We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.