RESPONSIBILITY: THE ABILITY TO RESPOND
Well, we all respond in some way to the actions and verbal responses of others towards us. Very often we respond in an angry, defensive way if we believe ‘the other’ to be criticising or judging us in some way. The implication in the title, is I believe, that RESPONSIBILITY is the ABILITY TO RESPOND IN A ‘laid back’, nonchalant way aware that how a person responds to us is representative of how that person is feeling in the moment and NOT a reflection on us, we are just grist to the mill as it were helping support the person’s point of view.
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to ‘own’ and take on board what is being said about or done to us instead of responding with EQUANIMITY— shrugging our shoulders and thinking ‘ah so’ allowing the person THEIR OPINION without it affecting us.
