Be accountable rather than playing blame game

It is known to all that humans are the best creatures on this earth, and I don’t have any doubt about it because humans are intelligent. They have many good qualities and deserve credit for it, but at the same time, they have some bad habits, too. In this world, everyone makes mistakes, and sometimes mistakes can be intentional and sometimes not. Again, sometimes things do not work according to plan because of our laziness or our recklessness. I think it’s okay to make mistakes or do something that we should not do, but we need to be responsible for our actions.

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It is unfortunate that most of us don’t want to take responsibility for our actions, more specifically for our mistakes or for our recklessness or laziness. We don’t want to keep ourselves accountable for it, and actually, we try to blame others by finding an excuse to protect ourselves. It’s like we love to play blame games. It is one of the worst characteristics of humans, and most of us always try to name others whenever there is an error. It’s a way to protect ourselves from trouble. Let me share a real example of my university teachers.

I can clearly remember the time when our honors second-year exam finished, and we expected to publish the results within a few months. Without getting the result, we were not allowed to attempt the honors 3rd-year exam. Five or six months had gone by, and we didn’t get the result. We asked our professor about it, and one professor told us he checked the exam papers of all students and submitted all the necessary data to the office, and when we went to the office, another teacher said the first-mentioned professor didn’t check the exam papers. Both teachers were blaming each other indirectly. I know that both of them were trying to protect their good image in front of the students. As students, we couldn’t argue too much about it, as it was not in our control. Someone was making a false statement, and we could only guess who was lying. Whatever the reason, because of that, we got our result after 14 months of our exam, and it was too much time, and we students suffered for it. We lost our valuable time just because they didn’t take responsibility for their actions.

One person can’t be a better version unless they are accountable for their actions. Suppose I made a mistake, and I blame others for my mistake. I will try to console myself, saying it was not my mistake, and naturally, we won’t try to improve. I think rather than blaming others, I need to keep myself accountable and take responsibility for my mistakes and try to correct them with effort. Without taking responsibility for our mistakes, how can we improve ourselves? When we accept our mistakes, we accept that there is some issue in us, and we need to work on it to make things correct.

Accountability in life, as well as taking responsibility for our own actions, is something that not only helps us to improve ourselves but also helps others not to be impacted by it. I know nobody wants to take the blame, but I feel that it’s necessary to take it if we are responsible for it.