The unbearable heaviness of a sense of responsibility - By Valeria
Posted on 13/10/2009 by Cathe in Articles |
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I think it's happened to most of us at least once:
part of a thought that no one knows where it comes from or why. Then the mind tries to remove it but after a while you realize that the attempt has failed: the thought is still there.
What is stubbornly rooted in the brain and apparently there is nothing left to do but go back and think about it.
At first it appears to be an irrelevant detail and yet, in retrospect, is so substantial that they can put a strain on the idea that we have made the world and of men.
Well, long ago two old friends - I know my time for so many years - will naturally begin to review and tell. How is one, as is the other, what they did in their lives.
I observe them, but something seems wrong. There is a kind of absence, even if the appearance would say the opposite.
Despite the warmth of that meeting and the pleasure of being one of the two is like trying to look not to lose sight of the exit door.
He wants to stay or want to escape?
He wants to stay, it seems. In fact, all she wants to stay, to renew that old friendship that drawing all the fun possible.
Yet there is a tinge of anxiety in the color of his eyes.
At one point she says something about the importance that he once, and then in memory, has always played in his life.
There is no denying that this woman has made the wrong move if we think of any amorous tactics, but if you had a chance to talk just let my heart ... well! maybe it was a really good example of warm-hearted!
And here is the sore point: he fears that what the exit door will disappear instantly leaving him at the mercy of events, answers: "Please do not give me this responsibility."
Lighting! Light!
RESPONSIBILITY?
Here is the key word! And he delivered himself.
But what would not a man but do not have to bear the burden of responsibility? Even giving up a friendship that feels important to him? Even put to rest any desire, any transport affective? Almost give up living?
But when it comes to responsibility for what you are actually referring to? I do not mean that round of heavy sense of duty mixed with unnecessary guilt, even if it is in this sense that is normally understood.
I think the recovery rather than the intellectual freedom that allows us to tell the truth, whatever that is. Responsibility for me is synonymous with truth, clarity of purpose that is nothing if not the only, only, true freedom possible.
Freedom (I always refer to the interior, or the moral courage to say and, more importantly, say the truth) on the other hand is the only tool we have to refine our emotions, to elevate them, if I may say so ...
This unedifying scene I've actually seen very often in my life, not only in the sentimental.
It seems that at some point a person should take two directions opposite to each other and this is because he can not "responsibly" to be observed long enough to be clear about what to do, then fails to dive in the action, the tablet, conflicts, produce a dissonance and of course the effectiveness of the moment is lost, turn off the sleep of his life.
Yes, because basically it's sleep.
The responsibility as I understand it is an act of awareness, a tool of freedom and not an additional constraint to their lives often already overwhelmed and inhibited.
Missing the truth about what there is an attempt to blend in the lead (although most often unconscious) to try to cut corners. Yet those who enjoy walking in the mountains know what shortcuts are a PITA, and effort!
I guess at this point would degrade the pathetic scene but no, this moment of lucidity I was filled with energy:
clear vision of how beautiful things when you can catch it, and how it hurts but when you are feeling only at a subliminal level.
Now I can not help but think about who in the past has been done to put the stake for an idea, to uphold the principle he believed in, to defend a cause ...
Obviously today we ate too much bread and Nutella, too many burgers and fries, but even if we fear the responsibility of a love or affection, I think we can really forget that there is a better world than this!
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On 10/13/2009 at 10:37 am Joseph said:
Booyah!
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Valeria Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Thanks Joseph
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shanti liateresa Reply:
October 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am
Hello dear Valeria, what is responsible? ... ... And the commitment, the intention and discipline?
I like the energy with which you write and the ease with which you throw the pebble in the pond.
Let me return to a Zen koan: how can you pull off a goose from the bottle, grew up in here, without breaking the bottle or killing the goose?
shanti a hug!
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On 10/13/2009 at 6:46 pm philippe says:
The inability to withstand the weight of responsibility I do not think an all-male attitude.
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Valeria Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I can only agree with you, Philippe
In the specific case to which I had seen him trying to stand and flee at the same time, but this attitude is also extended to many women, some who
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