What happened to Personal Responsibilty?

You know, I was just reading some discussions and was finding myself getting irritated. All the "he wants to do this" or "they did that" and the " I am so fuming mad" blah blah blah blah.. it is getting so ridiculous. More and more people come crawling out of their caves and jump onto bandwagons and such. Pointing fingers.. making blanket statements on subjects they have no clue about. I personally had a rough childhood. When people ask me if I would change anything in my life, I say no. Everything that happens in my life, makes me who I am. You can grow up in a rough neighborhood and better yourself. Become something. Or you can blame the system for keeping you down and live a hard knock life. We all have problems, we all have rough patches. God is not going to pick you up and set you safely on a rock. You have to be willing to work for yourself. It doesn't matter who is president, king , bishop, or the bag boy. As for personal responsibility.. that flew out the window with common sense a LONG time ago.. hopefully some of us can hold what is left of this defective country together.

I agree with you, personal responsibility is all but non-existant anymore. It's not being taught to the younger generations, with the exception of a few. What happened to people thinking on their own, and facing the consequences if something doesn't turn out right for them. It's so much easier to blame someone or something else for their downfall. It's much easier for some to whine and complain and sit back and do nothing to change the situation than it is to stand up and be heard, even if the 'crowd' doesn't agree with you. Personally, something goes wrong in my life, I won't be on mylot or any other site whining and complaining and asking 'what should I do', I'll be doing something about the situation.

What a can of worms this could turn out to be! It made me wonder if we should respond with a 'next president' comment or to answer your first question, "what happened to personal responsibility"? I won't touch the first one just now. As for personal responsibility and topics from relationships to politics, along with 'what about the role in your life', and when do you stop complaining, blaming and justifying, whew, you are asking a lot out of one person to collectively combine all of these subjects into one. While we should have learned by now that we get out what we put into it, some of us are just so darned stubborn, we can't see the forest for the trees. As for whatever happened to personal responsibility, I think (like one of the post above me), it's lost in the woods along with good, quality morals and values. It's right next to all of the other qualities we lost on the way to grandma's house. I've been accused of assuming a lot lately, so I'd better stop there, before I get into trouble again. lol Suffice it to say, I don't think too many people WANT the responsibility. It's too easy to point the finger and let someone else have it.

ha ha ha ha ha... you are so right! I guess it is easier to point a finger at someone and tell him his faults. But when it comes to doing the same for oneself, it is like mission impossible. *Tune of mission impossible plays in the background* It is always easy to be a couch critic. And the person being criticized has to accept it, regardless of whether they like it or not. When it comes to criticizing oneself, we cannot do it. And if someone were to do it for us, we usually cannot accept it. Sigh... paradoxes of life, ain't it?

Personal responsibility goes out with getting away with it which comes with easy living. Whenever people have life easy they just shred responsibility to have the ease. Masters of your own destiny sounds great but how many people ever did practise that ? When the whole of life is having it easy just forget these things. They drop by the wayside.

Masters of our own destiny. Our role in life. And what of Karma. I believe in what you have said and if we do not do well Karma comes and pays us back for any injustices. Karma has kept me sane. When i feel people close to me are not taking care of their own personal responsibilities I refrain from madness by realizing and believing in Karma. And I keep myself in tow the same way.

I think we are somwhat of masters of our own destiny too. There are just alot of walls and beariers we have to climb over and go through to reach the things we are after. We have to give and take alot of times too, to make sure we reach our goals. We cannot sit back and rely on other people to get us through. We have to help ourselves.

What ever happen to personal Responsibilty???? well actually i dont know but i guess its lost somewhere in the woods

Yes I agreed that there is personal responsibilities but everyone life is intertwine with another's so although you try to becomes someone and work hard at doing the best in your career one should always remember that there is another behind you pushing you up or pulling you down. There is a saying that say "No One Is An Island No One Stands Alone". So although we reach at the pinnacle we should look back and see who was there to put you there. My role in life was to make my family proud of me, especially my mom becoming a teacher and looking after her the best I could. Well I make it to college got sick and drop out. My mom got sick and die. I went into depression. My sickness was cause by another so you see no one is the Master's of their own destiny unless they want to live selfish and uncaring. This is my opinion.

Unfortunately, we have created a seemingly irreversible collectivist mentality, to the extent that we expect the government to intervene for everyone and for everything, and only the vote count matters. What used to be a safety net has become a hammock, and the icing on the cake today is that everything is someone else's fault and no one should be responsible for their own actions. What used to be equal opportunities has been turned into the expectation of equal results, and no one need make the effort to excel, and our hard earned freedoms are being treated with contempt. I love and hold dear your terms - Masters of our Destiny, and "what we put in, we get out", because humans have lost that now. I wish people could read Orwell's 1984 and Ayn Rand's Anthem, because they would see what we are heading for and wake up before it is too late. People are disengaged with politics now, and politicians with the people. The fight between right and left is history now, and the catchphrases of the World's Great Democracy include terms such as "change we can believe in", as if that were more important than good policies. Into the vacuum comes Environmentalism, a warped ideology posing as a legitimate set of moral and political incentives, with Junk Science as a fig leaf and offering nothing but negativity, lowering of expectations, guilt, self-satisfaction and an excuse for our elected elite not to carry out public services that we pay for such as rubbish collection and building d(y)kes* and flood defences. Humanity has lost the dynamism of our Enlightenment forefathers, who would be turning in their graves to see us now. The Enlightenment was supposed to make us proud of human ingenuity and progress, and champion Reason over Superstition. In the 21st Century we are in reverse gear, heading for the Dark Ages. *forbidden word - what a ridiculous piece of MyLot PC regulation: d(y)ke, without the brackets, is an English word meaning "Levee". Would you credit it?