I welcome you to my blog. Over the years, one of the things that I have come to realize that is very difficult for many adults and even children is accountability; it feels like it is a general problem, more like humans try to dodge or avoid the consequences of their actions, and if not forced or compelled, will do anything within their power to evade the consequences of their actions without even minding if another person will take the fall for it. There are many relationships and friendships that have crashed as a result of one person lacking the ability to take account or blame for their wrongdoing.
Accountability simply means taking responsibility for both the good and the bad that you did; funny how many individuals want to only take credit for the good they did but not the fall for the bad they did. We have many individuals out there who want credits for the food they did but want another person to take the fall for the wrong or bad they did; they don't even care how that affects the reputation of the person taking the fall for them as far as it is not them, then they don't have a problem. Every responsible human being should be able to take responsibility for both the good and the bad they did and not take responsibility for one and leave the other.
One of the things that strengthens friendship or relationships is the ability of those involved to take responsibility for their actions, whether good or bad. Many individuals, instead of taking responsibility for their actions, end up making excuses and giving reasons as to why they did what they did instead of just admitting that they were wrong and probably proceeding to apologizing and preventing matters from escalating, but instead they make excuses, and issues that should have been resolved in minutes become ones that have not been resolved in months, and from months it becomes years.
The failure to take responsibility when needed brings you more chaos than peace; you get to experience more chaos than actual peace because problems that "I did it and I am sorry about that" become ones that involve even those that shouldn't have heard of the issue or the problem if only you admitted and did the right thing. Accountability and admitting to both good and wrongdoings come with a kind of peace that failure to do it takes away, makes a private matter become public. Left for me, I will say that being accountable for your every action is better than not being accountable at all.
