Okay, I’m a little behind. Working too much and just getting too many good things to rant about lately … so this is a few days later than it should have been.
Listening to President G.W. Bush’s inaugural address last Thursday I caught the line “There can be no human rights without human liberty.” There is a lot of truth in that statement for much of the ‘rights’ that we celebrate here in the US require liberty and freedom to really prosper. However there is another requirement to true human rights … personal responsibility. (You’ll find that this tends to be a recurring theme here … as I feel that Personal Ownership rights and Personal Responsibility are two of the most important things in this country … and both are things that I feel no longer receive the respect that the deserve)
When a person ceases to be responsible for themselves … for their actions and choices in life … then a fundamental freedom has been taken away from them. That freedom is the freedom of self destiny, the ability to shape themselves into who they truly are. Without that central freedom none of the others can be attained. Without personal responsibility, the muscle of the other freedoms is useless … a body without bones.
Part of the freedom of personal responsibility, however, is the freedom to fail, and as a result people tend to let this central freedom be impeached.
Stand up for yourself as an individual, take charge of your life and accept the responsibility of your actions. You will be a freer person in the end, whether you succeed or fail.
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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