How about we try Personal Responsibility?

My parents raised me with a good sense of Personal Responsibility.

I screw up, I take responsibility for it and deal with the consequences.

More and more I see the blame game going on. It is never someone’s fault because there is always a reason that it can’t be.

I forget to do something I promise to do, I own up to it. Or I expect to be called on it.

I did this in my professional careers so if I had a reason outside myself, they took me seriously because they knew that I would admit if it was me.

But now people say things on the Internet and when called on their behavior, claim that they are not responsible for what others do with their words.

They do not take Personal Responsibility for what they say.

Oh and saying “That’s not what I meant” does not absolve one.

We can no longer debate because it turns into a shouting match of who is ‘right’.

Sometimes there is not a ‘right’ in matters that have such personal resonances.

People are not going to see eye to eye on all issues.

But they should take responsibility for their position rather than just parrot things that ‘sound good to them.’

Do some bloody research when you read something on line. Take some responsibility to not spread things that can be disproven with one Google search.

And I am talking not only things in the social arena but medical or whatever.

Take some personal responsibility to pass on truth rather than rumor and innuendo that just get passed on like a bad game of telephone.

Silly memes aside, we need to be better about what we say on social media.

We need to take Personal Responsibility.

I am grateful my parents taught me at a young age to take responsibility for word and deed.