Take responsibility for your own actions. I get that no one likes to make a mistake or screw things up but it happens to all of us. No one is exempt. The only thing you can do when it happens is take responsibility.
A friend told me today that her ex-husband said he just needed time off from being a parent. Being a parent is exceedingly stressful and not for the lightweight. When my kids were little I got an afternoon or day off occasionally. I was always better for it in the end. This person though is taking six weeks off. How is he meeting his responsibilities by behaving this way?
This is just a symptom of the entitled attitude that so many people have. People take the attitude that something is owed to them and they should get it whether they have earned it or not. Here is a news flash. It isn’t. You get nothing in life unless you work your butt off for it. Even when you work your butt off, you sometimes don’t get what you were working for.
In the news I’m hearing about how restrictive the conservatives are being. Politicians who come out and say that women shouldn’t have the vote; laws against teens holding hands in public; and other nonsensical laws, rules, and news stories. All of these types of news stories are ruses to misdirect our attention from the real problem.
I recently listened to a man (yup a man) talk about contraceptive services and also about the problems facing our country. I don’t know how Bernie Sanders (Independent from Vermont) has voted or what he is about. However here are two youtube videos that are worth watching and worth sharing.
It isn’t that I think we should be giving away things to people. I do think we should hold responsible the people who caused the problems with our economy. Certainly the elderly, sick, poor, and unemployed didn’t cause the problem. Our public employees didn’t cause the problems. The republicans (George W Bush mostly), oil companies, wall street, and the very rich who aren’t paying taxes are the ones who’ve caused our economy to fail. Their failures and faults are the ones who need to step up and say okay we screwed up. Now let’s fix it.