Responsibility is the ability to give a response. It is the ability to give a responsible response to a situation that asks for our (re)action.
The way to put it this way might seem ridiculous, but then too often our response to “things happening” around and with us is far from being authentic or conscientious. Far from being truly responsible.
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We rarely give our response, but a response confined within the boundaries of our cultural, educational, social, and moral make-up. It’s formed by what we should do, which is very often a conceptually inhibited re-action formed by contemporary (or traditional) opinions or customs, instead of being based on what necessarily needs to be done naturally.
What needs to be done, has little to do with what we, or with what society, the world, our friends, partner, or family think we should do. What needs to be done is to give an adequate, effective, and genuine answer on a question asked, or a problem posed. It’s like being confronted with a burning house and a person trapped inside that we need to rescue.
A real answer, real responsibility “miraculously” shows itself when we’ve become a blank and shining mirror, which comes about only when brushing off conceptual stains — that is, going beyond all the dirt that inhibits us to see clearly — and to act spontaneously.
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Then, when we’ve become highly receptive, an empty vessel, so to say — and ready to be filled completely with that which asks for our response, then, with perfect seeing, and perfect reflection, only a perfect answer can be the result.
A perfect response, like that of a mother who — without any volition — starts leaking when her little newborn cries for milk.
Responsibility has no relationship with shoulds or shouldn’ts, or with what we want or not want, for also our wanting is seldom our own. True responsibility is always spontaneous, uninhibited, it’s living the heartthrob of life naturally.
It’s giving that perfect answer to a question asked. Or a problem posed.
