Blog 53 - Pet Peeve

 One thing that annoys me a lot is when people do not hold themselves accountable for their actions. I get annoyed when people try and shift the blame onto someone else. I don’t know why, but this really gets me. I am fully aware that is human nature to try and run away from trouble.  I understand that everybody is trying to look out for themselves, or protect themselves, but sometimes it’s just ridiculous.

For example, I was hanging out with some people last quarter, and the door handle in my common room came off. Now I live there, and I knew that the door handle was bad; it usually came off, and all we had to do was stick it back on. It was funny to see how they reacted. The one person that clearly pulled the handle off began blaming another one of my friends. This was not a serious problem, but he was quick to disassociate himself from the whole thing. Once I saw that, I began to look at him in a different light.

This might sound unfair to him but that’s just the way I think. I guess that I like to hold people accountable for their actions. I mean most of time, if I am ever the cause of a problem, I don’t try to shift the blame to anybody else. I hold myself most accountable. I don’t understand why other people don’t feel that same obligation. We should hold ourselves more accountable because if we do, there will be no reason to blame someone else for our shortcomings.