Elephant in the room

When we choose to accept easy solutions to complex social problems, we end up ignoring the elephant in the room.

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Personal responsibility  

Accepting personal responsibility is not about victim blaming. Bad things happen to good people.

Accepting personal responsibility means understanding that what happened may not be our fault. But the story we choose to tell ourselves about it determines our response. This is IN OUR HANDS.

How we choose to reconcile our expectations of what the ideal world should be and the cold hard face of reality will determine if we move forward or remain stuck in our pain.

Do we want to confront the elephant in the room or go on living a lie?

The choice is yours and yours alone. No one can solve your problems, not the government, the priest, doctor or your partner.

Even if the prophet came down from heaven and knocked on your door right now. 

Nothing will change.

Life is 10% of what happens to you and
90% how you respond to it.

Anonymous

Wake up.

The key is in your hands.

If you believe this, you can move mountains.

BEWARE: Victim mindset and blame culture

You choose your belief system (or operating system) and how you see and respond to whatever happens to you.

What will you choose? 

Will you choose to be a victim of circumstances, people and history or to take responsibility and move forward as a victor, despite whatever has happened to you.

Identity politics is a trap that ignores our own unique individual story and removes the power we have to choose how we respond to challenges. 

It offers simplistic solutions to complex problems by making identity markers such as race, religion, gender, culture, nationality, age, disability, etc. the focus of our story. 

No two people are alike, even siblings born to the same parents. We all see the world through different eyes.

We are complex individuals with unique stories who should not allow ourselves to be squeezed into these narrow worldviews.

Don’t be fooled. This ideology makes you weak and dependent on an external narrative instead of empowering you to take responsibility and create a new future (narrative) for yourselves.

There are no simple solutions to complex social problems. Blaming the past or someone else doesn’t fix the problem, it perpetuates it.

So choose wisely because there is a huge cost when we choose to ignore the elephant in the room.