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“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be the most useful.” – Marie Curie

I can’t speak for folks outside the US, but inside our borders shirking responsibility seems to be quite fashionable. It is always the fault of someone else.

One of my favorites. Six o’clock news. Interviewing the mother of a fourteen year old boy who stole a car and got injured when he lost control of the car while being chased by the police. Mother: “The police is picking on my son. They didn’t need to chase him. He is only 14 years old and that’s the first car he ever stole.” Oh no, not the boys fault. No siree. If the cops would have waited he would have probably just parked it back where he found it. After all it wasn’t like he was a career criminal. Mom said it was his first!

I hope you realize I am being sarcastic. Mother puts blame on the police not the son. I would say the parenting he is receiving could be some of the problem. What do you think?

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn

Personal responsibility! Oh yeah baby! What, you want me to be responsible for my actions? Absolutely! If you are personally responsible for something then admit it and work it out.

I am a farrier and there was the case of a horseshoer who quicked a horse when he was nailing the shoe on. He pulled the nail finished shoeing the horse and left but didn’t tell the owner what he had done. To make a long story short, the hoof got infected, the owner had a large vet bill and it took the guy quite awhile to admit that he had quicked the horse. If he had took responsibility and told the owner they could have doctored it and that would have been the end of it. If the horse had kicked him, I bet he would have let the owners know.

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw

We need to become more responsible, our future depends on it. Our actions, environment, children’s education, pets; all our responsibility and we need to be doing a better job. Schools send report cards home to show us how our child is doing. If the grades are bad, be a responsible parent and contact the school and teacher and see what needs to be done to improve his grades.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I hope you enjoyed it. Remember to spread the love.

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“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” -Bryant H McGill

Respect is a way of treating or thinking about someone or something. A person can show it by being polite, taking your hat off, standing or just agreeing to disagree and move on. Just last year some football players decided not to show their respect and knelt for the National Anthem. Freedom of Speech?

“Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned not given.” – Hussein Nishah

News Flash: You don’t have to like someone to respect them. I think there are a lot of people out there who really have a problem grasping this concept. There are people who are nothing but egotistical, arseholes. I had some teachers and bosses that fell into that category but I respected them because they were good at their jobs.

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one. Social media seems to be an avenue where people like to voice their opinions. There is a certain group out there that believe their opinion is the only true one. They believe it so much that they won’t even give your opinion any respect, listen to it or even acknowledge it. I don’t believe I have seen so much arguing over a sitting President in my life. Folks let us quit acting like a bunch of high school kids. It isn’t worth it. Let it go. There has been times I didn’t heed my own advice and it solved nothing and just caused hard feelings. All it does is bring negativity into your world. The main stream news media is all ready doing a great job of sewing the seeds of hate and discontent we don’t need to be doing it too.

The protesters that block the highways are the ones that blow me away. They want me to respect their right to protest but they won’t respect my right to use that highway. Really? Did they ever stop to think that someone in that traffic could have a medical emergency, might be a doctor called into the hospital to save someone’s life, etc., so senseless. Look at the Ferguson riots. They couldn’t show respect to the businesses that served their community. Protesters burned them to the ground demanding respect for their cause.

Parents used to respect teachers. Some of the things I have heard from people mostly go like this, “I think the teacher has it out for Johnny”, the teacher just doesn’t understand my child, etc.. Pretty much the norm of the times. One of my clients was livid because a teacher took her daughter’s cell phone from her for texting while taking a test.

Bottom line is parents need to teach their children respect. We need to start getting along together. Thanks for reading. Be kind to one another, share the love and don’t squat with your spurs on.