Self responsibility

Someone read me a preface of a book this week which was essentially all about self responsibility. It's human nature to blame others for our feelings and actions and ultimately our lives but the book calls on you to look at yourself. Easy when she read it, I understood all of it, harder when you're in it.

Don't you ever feel that your actions are a reaction to something else someone has done or said. Isn't that what makes us human? I have feelings. Sometimes those are a result of me but sometimes they are a result of you. Why am I being self responsible when someone else isn't responsible with how I feel? I'm not sure I get it, but then again it was only the preface.

What I do know is that humans have emotions. That's what makes us one of the most successful beings on the planet. Emotions combined with intellect and the ability to think for ourselves. Then again do we? I think we think with our hearts, with our emotions and then rationalise our emotions with our intellect. That's how we come to a decision.

Until you are self responsible and rationalise my emotions with your intellect I am not sure I can do the same.