The Lost Art of Personal Responsibility

If we as humans can agree that all of us are not “perfect” then it stands to reason that all of us are “fallible”. That is to say all of us make mistakes. With the knowledge that we all make mistakes, whose fault is it when something bad happens to us? The unfortunate reality lies in the mirror.

Why is it that some of us believe with absolute certainty that they must be the only human that has attained “perfection”? Case in point, If while shopping in a store a customer slips on a banana and falls they are immediately processing a list of possible candidates to blame for their misfortune. Why is this? Given the knowledge that we are all “fallible” this customer should have known that these kinds of mistakes are likely to happen and been prepared for this sort of event by looking where they are walking.

Only someone who has reached perfection is unable to take “personal responsibility” for the misfortunes in their life. It is painful for some of us to face that “fallible” human in the mirror while both freeing and enlightening to others.