The student asked the teacher: “What is responsibility?” He silently took his hand, led him out into the garden and led him to the fruit tree. Waving cocoons of butterflies hung on a branch. It was clear how insects were trying to free themselves from them. Master carefully cut one of them, and the butterfly climbed out. Soon her wings spread, she waved them and ... never took off. The teacher explained: “Responsibility is what allows a person to rise. But for this he should, like a butterfly in a cocoon, exert his strength, not just physical, but mental. ”
Century problem
As often happens: a person is smart, talented, but cannot realize himself in life. Indeed, it is critically necessary for an adult who wants to be happy, successful and independent to acquire such a quality as responsibility.
Quotes about this quality of maturity confirm the correctness of the Master:
A true tragedy is the tragedy of a person who has never in his life concentrated and made no great effort. He never fully realizes his abilities, never gets up to his full height.
These words belong to the famous British critic and journalist Arnold Bennett. They reflect sad reality. Indeed, it is common for most of the people around us to blame anything for their troubles: the state, the mediocre leader, spouse. They do not want to take responsibility for their lives.
How to raise responsibility
No man in the world comes into the world from the very beginning able to bear responsibility for himself and his actions. Quotes about her upbringing can mobilize a person to cultivate this most important quality. Steve Pavlina, an American blogger and trainer of personality development, himself went this way. He calls his youth “years of missed opportunities”: the lack of clear goals in life and motivation led him to a prison term. However, this person managed to instill responsibility in himself, at first having received the qualification of a programmer, and then - a writer and author of popular trainings. His personal experience gives weight to the thoughts expressed by this person:
Take responsibility for your life and begin to solve the problems you are facing. They exist to help you grow, not to crush you.
As you noticed, the trainer used the word “grow up”. Bernard Shaw said this more precisely, putting an equal sign between the concepts of “responsibility” and “freedom”.
Thus, the education of a truly free person, a person of the Aquarian era, requires certain volitional efforts to cultivate responsibility in the individual. This requires:
- Work on oneself: setting goals, overcoming difficulties, patience and perseverance, self-control, creative approach.
- Planning your activities: keep a diary - formulate tasks in writing and set deadlines.
- Work with people. The organization of the activities of others enhances personal responsibility.
- Proper relationships with children. A parent is always a responsible party.
Conclusion. Responsibility is a necessity
In our difficult virtual and competitive age, the maturity of a person is especially important. This is also confirmed by philosophers. Austrian humanist Victor Frankl argued that responsibility is the most important basis for a decent human existence. As a development of his thoughts expressed by him, a quote about responsibility from the writings of Mary Joe Copeland deserves attention, especially this one:
Too few people own too much and too many people own too little. We live in a sick world. We must learn responsibility.
Unfortunately, the basics of responsibility are often not instilled either in a modern school, or even in a family. Often, an adult personality acquires such a quality only after receiving hard life lessons, and this, we note, is not the worst option. However, it would be better to begin to comprehend responsibility on the example of parents and teachers.