Individual responsibility and choice

Throughout our whole life we have the responsibility to make choices for our own survival and experience.

When it comes to the topic of choice and responsibility, it takes a strong person to stand up to the podium to say that they do take full charge of all that they experience in life. Often we like to push responsibility off to others, not wanting to take control of our life because of the impacts that we cannot handle or find unjustified. We think that there is a time in our lives that we have to depend on others in order to survive, that we have no responsibility to take. If we really understood it for what it truly represented we would have already acknowledged that not only do we have responsibility for our lives from the time of our birth, we also have a responsibility to see that we get individually all that we need in order to survive.

I suppose a person might question such claims and ask then how does a baby take responsibility and make choices in their lives? Take into consideration the possibility that one day the mother of the baby might decide that she does not want it anymore and hides it away secretly hoping that it will not be found. It is at this point that the mother has not chosen to take care of the baby anymore, so what must the baby do in order to survive? The answer is this. It must do all it can to survive, all that it has capable of doing. If it stays in the hiding place without making a sound the likelihood that someone will find it is a lot less than if it were to cry aloud in order to get a response. The baby at this stage in its life has a responsibility to stay alive and it calls out to anyone in a hope that someone will find its hiding place and give it food. This is the only way it can communicate and if it chooses not to do so, then in some cases it will find no will to eat or survive.

Even at this young age the baby has responsibility to call for food so that the parents can know what it wants and how to satisfy all of its needs. Not everyone in this world is brought up in a loving and caring family and they will be the first to tell you that they had to from a very young age take responsibility for their lives and make choices based on their own need to survive. They know the extent of choice that they have the ability to harness in their life and with everything they do they know that it can impact their world around them.

Whatever we choose to do will impact our lives in one way or another. This is not to do with karma or give and take. It is to do with cause and effect. If we are playing a game of chess and we move a piece on the board, this will impact the rest of the game. The same rules apply to our lives that whatever we choose to experience will make changes in the environment around us. We will not get it back to us what we give out, not in all cases. People might question this statement at this point and say that if a person makes changes in their life it will impact them directly. Not in all cases.

Imagine that there is person walking on the street and they have a banana in their hands and they start to eat it. Instead of putting the peel in the bin they throw it on the ground. This person walks on with no effect to their experience instead only that they have just enjoyed a delicious banana. However, someone later walks near that banana peel and trips over. It has impacted the person who has not taken responsibility to watch where they are walking, not the person who did throw originally the banana peel on the ground. This shows that we all have responsibility in all that we do, no matter which side it is seen from. It also goes for the person who litters the ground. If they choose not to have the world looking like a garbage dump then they need to take responsibility to place their rubbish in the bin.

Another example of taking responsibility is in reference of when a child goes to school. Most would say that a child does not have the ability to make choices that are good for their wellbeing at this stage of their life. This is one of the most incorrect statements that could be made at this point. A child might not have experience in dealing with the physical world as many are well aware of, however they do know what they like and do not like. They know from birth all that they desire. It will not matter how much they are pushed to do things that they do not like, eventually it will turn a full circle and at some point in their life they will lean towards their own goals and dreams, not taking into account the choices others made for them.

Yes, even a child has responsibility for their own life and how it will be experienced. We can look at children in underprivileged countries where they have trouble to find food everyday. Who in this circumstance provides for this child’s own survival? Not only the parents, but the children also look for food and bring back things to the family to which they order their need to survive. They know that working in numbers can provide a lot more than having to survive alone. Even at the age of four a child in such circumstances knows full well their responsibility to make good choices for the longevity of their experience here in this world, no matter the obstacles.

The life that a person leads now is the life that they chose, based always on circumstance and the material experience they are given from birth. We all have certain limitation in our lives when it comes to physical survival, however, we have always the ability to make choices to better our lives and achieve all the goals we desire within our own known environment. It takes only the knowledge that we have to take responsibility for our own survival and to know that in the end we do choose for all that we experience in life right down to the core.

Stacey T Pollock
10th October 2008

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