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Humans love to blame others for their failures. Children blame their parents for their failures; they’ll say ‘If only my parents had sent me to a better school, I’d have become successful’. The fact is, you don’t need to attend the best school to become the best in life. The type of school you attend shouldn’t be an excuse for your failure, because there are successful people who didn’t even attend any schools.
Some parents too blame peers for their children’s delinquencies. ‘My child is disobedient because of a friend of his’. Why should you blame another child for your child’s bad attitudes? You are the parent; it is your duty to ‘train your child in way he should go’. So instead of blaming someone else’s child, check yourself and how well you are performing your duties.

“I’m a good man but I behave badly because my wife irritates me” with due respect sir, that is a very stupid thing to say. Your husband/wife’s inadequacy should not be your excuse to behave badly. Everything action we take or behavior we exhibit in life is as a result of our preferences. You act in a manner because you have chosen to; it’s not because of other people’s attitudes to us.

In David Hume’s philosophy, we are made to understand that there is no necessary relationship between ‘cause’ and ‘effect’. I can’t claim that my bad behavior [effect] is as a result of my friend’s attitude to me [cause]. That my friend is a glutton [cause] is no justification for my stinginess; I’m stingy because I have chosen to. That I attended a public school is no justification for failure. That my wife/husband irritates me is no justification for adultery. My friend’s gluttony and my stinginess; my school and my success; my husband/wife’s irritating behavior and my adultery are two different events respectively that have nothing to do with each other. They are events that we have purposely and mentally joined together so as to give excuses and justify our actions. All our failures and bad attitudes are choices that we have made. The adulterous wife/husband is aware of the fact that you can be faithful but has chosen its opposite.

We need to take charge of our lives and stop making excuses. Your life is in your hands, you are responsible for every choice you make……
No more excuses ………………

Sina_taylor

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