Blame

Do you usually blame others for your shortcomings, your mistakes, your failures, and so on? Lots of people like to play the blame game (blame somebody else) so that they are unscathed by certain events/incidents or not caught up in controversy. It is the "right kind of wrong."

I have personally witnessed/seen blame games where it feels like (or is a lot like) the individual(s) doing the blaming is selling his/her soul to the devil. Maybe it is better to take responsibility for your actions in all situations.

Here is a blame song - an old favorite of many - by Rupee:
Blame it on the music
"It is not me, oh on
Blame it on the music,,
Blame it on the band...."

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-xMcC4xuo0&index=7&list=PLmYXTlZN4bBLiYNV-KrhlU0dV3NS6jpHQ)

"The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding."
- Lorii Myers

A person's choices usually tell how responsible that person is.......

"You can transform reality with your very thoughts. You have a choice in every moment of your life…Every second you can choose to accept conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them."
- Corry Booker, http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0080-booker.htm

How mature!

From the song 'Better In Time' by Leona Lewis:

It's time to let you go
So I can be free
And I can live my life how it should be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wba5rnn2bMQ

"Maturity is when you stop making excuses and start making changes."
- Unknown

"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
- John MacNaughton

A display of maturity....

In the movie 'A Thin Line Between Love and Hate', the club owner confesses that he admires young women but he chooses not to pursue them because of his commitment to his wife.

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
- Joshua L. Liebman

Young and foolish?

From ‘Young, Wild and Free’ by Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa:

So what we get drunk?
So what we smoke weed?
We’re just having fun
We don’t care who sees
So what we go out?
That’s how it’s supposed to be
Living young and wild and free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5B22KAkEk

The stars seem immature....is that the reason for the "dumb" or "stupid" label?

Movie 'Dumb and Dumber':

"You’re immature if you can’t accept reality or responsibility."
- Arnold Glasow

"One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong."
- Sean Stewart

"Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. But to grow up, to take responsibility for the time you take up, and the space you occupy, to honor every living person for his or her humanity, that is to grow up."
- Maya Angelou

Theme for the week 3/1 - 3/7: Maturity
(inspired by the following quote from last week:
"Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and
their conduct, who own their own actions and own up to them - who answer for them."
- William J. Bennett)

 "In dreams begin responsibility."
- William Butler Yeats