Getting Blame, Shame and Guilt Out Of Responsibility

Blame, shame, guilt and responsibility usually go together like bread and butter which is a very sad thing, as originally those words were never meant to go together in fact, just the opposite. The word responsibility was never designed to have the associations that it has today. In fact, it basically means the opposite of restriction, confinement and burden.

The word is three words in one. Most people when they try to understand break it down to only two words. 1. ABILITY TO 2. RESPOND

That is useful and yet it still does not get to the essence of what the word is conveying. Let's look at it deeper • At the beginning of the word is the prefix RE, which means "do over" • At the end of the word we have 'bility' ability abbreviated which means "power to"

Now we can see it already sounds different than what we normally think. We realize this word is about the power to do something over.

The key to this word is in the middle 'spond', which comes from a Greek musical term 'sponde', meaning "to liberate, liberation"

So what we are talking about is… "The Power to once again liberate."

How did such a wonderful and exciting idea become associated with the horrible ideas and consequences it has today in our society?

The answer may surprise you. It is really a math problem… What do I mean? It is the problem of the word "to" (2) and the word "for" (4). Society has miss interpreted these two little words and caused a word that was meant to excite and energize to be received with dread, sadness and apprehension. Here is where the rub comes in… • The Individual is responsible to and for oneself • The Individual in ONLY responsible to others (including spouse, children, bosses, friends, society) • When the individual attempts to take responsibility FOR any other human being the word begins to imprison instead of liberate.

As one Master Teacher once said… Our Diversity Supports Our Individual Freedoms... While our societies continue to try to dictate and enforce human behavior to please the majority - because of our diversity, it continues to be an uncomfortable struggle that, again and again, falls of its economic weight. There simply is not enough money in the world to buck the natural currents of individual freedom and independence of thought.


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