Responsibility
Surfer and guest writer Jay Whitewind publishes a post about responsibility.
If something bad happens we can easily blame circumstances, others, politicians or anything there is to blame.
The effects of the bad are disclaimed further and further away until someone unknown far away has to deal with it.
Business deals are disclaiming responsibility towards the earlier middlemen and they of cause disclaim their responsibility all the way to the original manufacturer. In this chain, when something goes wrong the full consequent goes all the way back to the first link in the chain of business.
What would you do if you where the first link in this chain? Go bankrupt or disclaim your responsibility and dump all that problem in some obscure hole some place far away?
Responsibility begins with ones own life, if we take full responsibility for everything in our life, both good and bad, we actually gets to a place where we also can start changing the bad. Accept everything in your life, embrace it, with the feeling that this is what is now. Now everything is close to you and you are able to touch the bad stuff that before was pushed away so far that you suffered from it without even knowing what it was.
If you get a splinter in your finger, you naturally focus your attention there to get rid of it. First, before you can locate the source of pain, it feels really bad, then as soon as you see the splinter, how it entered, how deep it is, that it is sticking out a bit, you breath out deeply and feel relaxed that this can be fixed. Imagine how you would suffer if you never found that splinter and still felt the pain.
This is similar to how we suffer from bad stuff that we believe is not part of our responsibility and therefor never gives it attention.
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