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Responsibility, accountability forge fruitful alliances

Whose responsibility is it? It is obviously not mine. The other party did everything and brought everything to spiral down. He/she did this and this and here we are, now living worlds apart. Yes, responsibility is big and itchy.

No one often wants to be the bigger person and admit that indeed it takes two to tango. There can never be fire without a spark. Moreover, it takes a friction or collision of two different things. You must run a match stick on the striker strip, then fire is born. In the ancient days, people used to strike two stones together until fire is ignited. Without the other, there is no way fire could be produced. Just as much in our lives, our actions must collide and cause certain emotions that would brew tension amongst ourselves. We fall out of relationships because we each contribute to a certain course.

It is very unfortunately that everyone wants to always appear as a saint before other and dump the whole responsibility on others. We like to point fingers to others immediately without checking and acknowledging our contributions in the act.

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