Responsibility for your own actions and being a bird in a cage are two different things, in my opinion.
Nearly all people do have anything that limits their possibilities, be it caused from the outside (economic, class) or be it something from their own materia they're made of (like sickness, energy levels, breaking points, stress resistence). Disabilities you can't ignore are just an extreme example to demonstrate how it affects your ability to sustain to that credo of "Everyone forges his own fortune." - but so even are the little disabilities and weaknesses that people have. This is not a world where everyone is born healthy and it's solely his own will that determines how much comes out of his personal resources. That's a lie. A fucking bold-faced lie. And the more you try to keep that up for yourself, believing in the hamster wheel while you already fall victim to the negative effects of your disability / weakness, the more it turns into self-destruction. So it is to all people you still tell about the fortunes of the hamster wheel and the invalidity of weaknesses on your performance in the hamster wheel. It's fucking destruction.
Responsibility, compared to that, is doing things and be behind them, regardless if they turn out good or bad, and bearing the consequences of your actions.
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Date: 3 December 2016 09:25 pm (UTC)Nearly all people do have anything that limits their possibilities, be it caused from the outside (economic, class) or be it something from their own materia they're made of (like sickness, energy levels, breaking points, stress resistence).
Disabilities you can't ignore are just an extreme example to demonstrate how it affects your ability to sustain to that credo of "Everyone forges his own fortune." - but so even are the little disabilities and weaknesses that people have. This is not a world where everyone is born healthy and it's solely his own will that determines how much comes out of his personal resources. That's a lie. A fucking bold-faced lie. And the more you try to keep that up for yourself, believing in the hamster wheel while you already fall victim to the negative effects of your disability / weakness, the more it turns into self-destruction.
So it is to all people you still tell about the fortunes of the hamster wheel and the invalidity of weaknesses on your performance in the hamster wheel. It's fucking destruction.
Responsibility, compared to that, is doing things and be behind them, regardless if they turn out good or bad, and bearing the consequences of your actions.