Hey guys, welcome back. It is the Dr. Cloud Show, which is the place you and I get to talk.

And I want to talk about personal responsibility for a moment.

Now, this is a big topic that gets people really upset, really, really upset for a number

of reasons.

One of the big reasons is that, you know, there's a difference between, which I'm going to go into in a second,

but there's a difference between responsibility and fault, which I will hop into.

But I remember, and I'm going to have to ask our in-house philosopher,

well, he's probably busy taking your calls right now.

But I think it was, I think it was Kafka that said something like.

I'm going to botch the words on this, but the idea was, he said, I went out into the

night sky. I looked up at the universe and I said, I went out into the night sky.

I looked up at the universe and I said, I exist.

To which the universe responded, that evokes no sense of responsibility in me.

Well, there's some issues in that statement. But the reason I like it is that we come into life um not having a lot

of responsibility right you got to pretty much just show up and we you know if you're hungry

you don't have to take responsibility for

your hunger and go to the fridge and get something to eat somebody else takes responsibility

to you really um there's a responsibility for others and a responsibility to others.

But your caretaker, your mom, your dad, your, whoever it was there, when you're upset,

they see that as, that's my problem because they are a parent.

They're taking responsibility for that. Well, gradually over this course of something we call maturity,

there is a gradual offloading and hopefully a requirement for the child

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