Responsibility
What is personal responsibility? Before this prompt, I had never thought about the meaning of the phrase; when I hear personal responsibility, what comes to mind is the ability to take responsibility for one's own actions and the extent to which a person is willing to take responsibility. For me learning to take responsibility is something that has never come naturally, I would rather make an elaborate excuse or blame the situation on someone else, but I have slowly but surely learned the the "easy" way out is never the best way out. It is easy to relate to a subject like this one by making a scenario that explains the importance of the subject through a real-life example.
Imagine this, you have a group of very trusted friends and they all want to go to a rated-R movie (even though you are underage) and tell you that there is no chance of getting caught. Being the gullible person you are, you take their offer and go out to see the rated-R. Shortly after entering the theatre they make lots of noise and are soon taken out of the theatre along with you and then proceed to put the blame on you since, you are, the gullible one. So are you to blame for their noise? The answer varies from person to person, but the answer is simple. Yes you are.
WHY you are responsible, is an easy question to answer as well. If you knowingly agreed to take a risk by going to the movie, you also unknowingly agree to take responsibility for the many possible consequences for that action. No matter what terrible repercussion may have happened at that theatre, you are automatically partly responsible because you, of your own free will, chose to venture out to the movies. That is a simple way of explaining the meaning of personal responsibility, and how to distinguish whether or not a situation is your responsibility or not.
Like the video above illustrates, the woman has to take obvious responsibility for her actions, and now knows that many situations can yield unexpected consequences if not handled with care.
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