LIFE IS RESPONSIBILITY

-THIS IS ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP TO HAPPINESS, ENJOY THE PROCESS-

‘Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility’ S. Freud

What is life? Big question right? I have been asking myself that a lot recently. I think I know what it is for me. Life is responsibility. Yes, it is a responsibility.

From the moment we begin to have a formed intelligence to take decisions we start this journey of choices that make our life going in one direction or another.

The period before that, when you are a baby, is when your parents or tutor or whoever looked after you is fundamental and really make the difference in what you are going to be.

No matter what experience you had with them, either positive or negative (depending on the way you look at it) you will always have the choice over your life. Blaming our parents for who we are is wrong because who take decisions is us, not them. I am lucky I grew up in a relatively ‘easy’ reality.

The great thing is that we really have the choice over our future, step by step, decision after decision. It is a quite easy concept that I still find difficult to see in people around me.

I see people stuck in their own cage, in their own mental scheme, owned by external factors. I see people complaining but doing nothing about it.

I cannot honestly tolerate that kind of person. I mean, if you have the strength to complain so much, why don’t you put that energy to change what you do not like?!

It is not about being right or wrong, or being successful,

is about going to sleep at the end of the day and knowing you did everything in your power to change something you do not like about your life.

Going to bed knowing you know exactly where you are going because you have been true to yourself and you have been loving yourself for who you are.

LIFE IS RESPONSIBILITY, WE ARE THE ONES DRIVING.

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We are the ones deciding every time.

Buddhism gives so much importance to this aspect. If you take a flight that crashed, Buddhism does not say ‘you were unlucky’, Buddhism says ‘you took the responsibility for taking that flight and you take responsibility for what happened'. This way of thinking is very powerful as it makes you responsible for the choices you make, every single choice, every single second of your life.

Karma is not such a stupid concept or too abstract even. It is quite easy to understand, be good and good will come to you, be bad and bad will come to you.

We need to take action towards our actions. Every single action has a reaction. Are we going to take responsibility for our actions or we are still going to think ‘It is someone else fault’? How easy is to pass the ball to someone else and thinking that it’s not up to you?

How sad, I would say.

Those are the same people they complain because they never take responsibility for anything, especially their life. Those are the people it is not worth investing in.

We are all gonna have situations in our life where we are going to feel we have been treated unfair. Do not change because of that. Continue being fair and honest. Make of integrity a path.

What does it mean to be fair? I believe we all know, whenever we make decisions, that those decisions are going to be positive or negative; not telling others the truth it does not mean you are not lying to yourself.

We all know what it means to be fair or honest.

When our behavior is genuine and filled with honesty there it comes the fairness I was talking about.

What goes around comes around.

When you start to take control of your life, taking responsibility for the life you want, for the decisions you take, for every breath, for every second on this planet maybe we are beginning a new life.

A TRUE LIFE MADE OF TRUE SUBSTANCE, THE SUBSTANCE OF THE MAN THAT TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS LIFE.

DO NOT JUST TAKE A DECISION, BE THE DECISION YOU ARE TAKING.

Once this process starts you will feel empowered to take any decisions, there is not going to be a bad or a good decision, there is going to be only the responsibility you take and the consequences of that decisions. No matter how it goes you are going to be the only one to deal with the consequences and you won’t be blaming anyone else, being in control of your life. That is the base of growth, beginning from taking responsibility for our life. I’m happy I could share these thoughts because this is one of my life pillars.

-THIS IS ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP TO HAPPINESS, ENJOY THE PROCESS-