“There may come a time in the life of an individual, or in the life of an entire people when they are offered a great choice. Fundamentally, this choice may be relatively simple: either to honestly accept responsibility for their own lives and their own actions, and seek to improve their lives through hard work and disciplined endeavor; or to make a different (and often the easier choice), one which avoids responsibility for their own lives and their own actions and seeks to improve their lives through viewing themselves as victims, victims of an evil and omnipotent oppressor, the prima facie cause of their suffering”
Are you a philosopher? This is something that should be said everywhere.
Thank you Niuhuru. No, I am not a philospher, but I am a recovering alcoholic with 30 years sobriety. That’s where I learned how to start becoming honest with myself. Those with whom I started this journey to recovery who were unwilling or unable to become honest with themselves, who persisted in viewing themselves as victims, did not make it through. Many of them are dead and gone now. These are the lessons I have learned and have never forgotten.