Personal Responsibility

The Personal Responsibility

Qiang Wang

GEN/200

April 21, 2012

Heather Todd

Responsibility exists in your life since you were born and living in this world. Your responsibility is keeping your parents’ generation as a baby. When you grow up, your sense of responsibility changes: As a teenager, you attend school for education, your responsibility is learning; when you start to work, your duty is to complete the work task. The question is what the actual meaning of “Responsibility”, according to the online dictionary, there are five different explanations: 1. the state of being the person who caused something to happen; 2. A duty of task that you are required or expected to do; 3. The state of having the job or duty of dealing with and taking care of something or someone; 4. the quality of a person who can be trusted to do what is expected, required. (http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/responsibility). The meaning of Personal Responsibility is above and beyond this. It states that “Personal responsibility is an obligation to oneself. It is one’s individual duty to ensure your good character and behavior irrespective of how you were brought up and what kind of conditioning you have received. Personal responsibility also includes being accountable for the degree and level of your health, wealth, success and happiness. Your strengths, emotions, and character may be challenged or tested. As a responsible person, you should be able to determine what's right or wrong, what's good or bad and what's within your control.” (http://www.about-personal-growth.com). The most important, personal responsibility will help you develop your plan in daily base and help you accomplish you plan with discipline in a timely manner. At same time, personal responsibility is a key factor to let you handle your stress very well. It is the unique way to you become successful in schools.

As an adult, you play more than one role in your life: you could be a parent, an...