Taking responsibility: From childhood to maturity


When you're growing up,from an early age you become conditioned to see yourself as not responsible for your life.  This is normal and natural. When you are a child, your parent are in charge. They make all your decisions ;food, clothes, toys, outing, school etc.  Because you are young, innocent and unknowing, you do what they want you to do. You have little choice or control.

As you grow up, however, you begin to make more and more of your own decisions in each of these areas. But because of your early programming, you are conditioned unconsciously to feel that someone else is still responsible for your life, that there is still someone else out there who can or should take care of you.

Most people grow up to believe that if something goes wrong, someone else is responsible. Someone else is the villain and they are the victim. As a result, most people make more and more excuse for the things in lives, past and present, that makes them unhappy.

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