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Burden is complete opposite of responsibility. It is a form of negative responsibility or a troubling obligation. It is a load carried around with difficulty.

Separating the differences of responsibility and burden is what makes the rich and poor difference.

Rich turn every fault with a solution and benefit from it. They turn problems into solutions and close it as it is.

Poor on the other hand turn every fault into a new problem creating more problems and troubles which is related or associated with a fault thus implicating people who is linked with the event or incident. Those who fall into this poor category, will than turn a small problem into a big problem and create many more problems that than become a problem maker thus the poor get poorer day by day.

Within a family, watching the baby growing up from to a adult can be either a responsibility or a burden. Depending on how parents and grandparents who may help in taking care of the baby or child.

Rich people take care of their children as a form of responsibility within a limited period; giving only what they need thus they can better manage and be independent. This is the model way whereby it is tested proven and works for centuries, refer to documentary on how wild animals and beast take care of their babies and learn from them.

Poor people show care and concern for their children like a burden that will last till they die without time limit. They always try to shield their children from dangers thus children grow up weaker day by day and become more dependent on their parents.

To get rich, wealthy and successful, you have to learn to be independent, seek assistance instead of help.

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Responsibility is an obligation that everybody has in different degree and duties.

It is be accountable, and be responsible for personal action by means of being reliable and dependable. It is the duty which every one of us has since birth. The complete opposite of responsibility is burden which all of us have as well.

There are numerous kinds of responsibilities entrusted to different individuals depending on their status, role and position. Social, moral, corporate, media, individual, professional, cabinet and ministerial responsibility is just some examples of the variations of responsibilities. I will write about the root of responsibility which boils down to individual responsibility.

Individual responsibility changes with time as we grow older and taking different roles and status depending on our personal development.

A duty of a baby to teenager is to grow up strong healthy and do their parents and family proud. The duty of a adult is to ensure that he/she in turn take care of their parents who help groomed them to who they are as an adult. As parents and grandparents, it is to ensure that their children grows up strong, independent with good grades to support themselves and their own newly formed family and also their parents and in-laws plus grandparents if financial ability permits them to do so.

In order to be accountable, and responsible for one’s actions, he/she must be given the right education knowledge and guidance to grow up into a fine example or as a role model.  While responsibility is a topic which no schools will talk and teach, it is what we learn as we grow, that helps us individuals understand the real definition of responsibility or each of their own duties and the roles they have play.

Experiences and knowledge help shape responsibility of an individual, given the wrong guidance, a child will learn about increasing burden than responsibility and increasing troubles and problems affecting the surrounding people slowing down their individual progress or growth in whatever areas.

Schools may be taught the word responsibility but it is only done on the very surface of that word without in depth studies on it as it varies from people to people thus it is largely learn based on experience.

Rich people have more areas to take note as compared to the poor people who in turn is dependent on people for help without helping themselves.

If you want to get rich, wealthy and successful, make sure you understand the real essence of being responsible which is further divided into two words which I have written above and that is to be reliable and dependable which sums up the whole of responsibility.

Have a clear understanding from anyway possible if you want to be rich and successful. The poor is getting poorer day by day due to the fact that they push away their individual responsibilities and make it a burden of their families and relatives thus they are poor.

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Laziness is the lack of desire to expand effort. It is to appear sluggish, slow moving, resistant to work.

It is a psychological problem that manifests itself in our own mind. By repeating telling ourselves that we are lazy, one day you will notice that you will tell others yourself and confirm yourself from your own mouth that you’re a lazy bone thus pushing and avoid any job or work which can be a hassle.

Laziness derives from the word lazy, but there’s a slight critical difference between these two words which dictionary and schools don’t talk about.

Laziness is a problem while being lazy is a catalyst to speed up productivity and efficiency at work for finding shortcuts. Once you start working, you will realize the difference. A shortcut is needed to reduce time, effort and to increase profits for minimal effort made.

People who practice laziness, will have a harder difficult lives and living in a environment filled with problems created by their own laziness.

People who are lazy are making lots of money. Look at your employment, do they do the work themselves or do they pass or divide their workload to the group to minimize the time spent on a project. Just do a simple comparison, is it easier for a group of people to complete a project or just a individual to complete a project? When workload is spread out, the workload decreases and thus profits are made in the process.

Another example will be for the sales people. Are the people bring in sales for companies and allow the business to profit earning more or is the employees doing the administrative work earning more? Ask and you will notice the difference. People who bring in the bacon and pass the job or work to others are earning more money, while the doers are making just average income doing not as productive things as compared to bringing in profits for the company. Nevertheless, administrative employees are just as important, if not the job or work will not get done if nobody takes up the job.

To be wealthy and successful, you first have to learn to become a lazy person finding shortcuts without reducing the profit margin or to increase any problems comprise safety at work.

Once you find or have created the blueprint, you have found yourself a winning formula which can bring you wealth and it all starts from the mind, put on your thinking cap. It is like selling a franchise business, you hold the master key, you just sell your franchise model to investors who want profits from the business, collecting royalties from every investor who is using your system.

To master the art of being lazy without having laziness in your mind is an art, a skill that must be learned and applied correctly and it all starts with your mind. So stop being a lazy bone and start thinking.

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Tension is a strained relationship between both parties between individuals, groups or nations. It is the disagreements which both parties fail to come up with a mutually beneficial terms causing the relationship to be stretched and the bonding goes from thick to thin with each escalating issues surfacing.

It creates emotional strain, intense anxiety among everyone among those affected by the disagreements.

Tensions are everywhere, from average person walking on the streets to businesses, and even nations. All the way from the smallest average people like you and I to the biggest most powerful nations, all of us are living in a tensed up society these days with lots hidden unhappiness stored inside each nation waiting for eruption like a volcano. Each new failed or sour business relationship between two countries is like the sill of the volcano, the unhappiness among both countries is like the large magma chamber.

When a failed sour business caused relationships to take a slight turn for the worse, causing job losses in businesses affecting large scale especially among different countries, a parasitic cone is formed with lava flowing out from the parasitic cone slowly increasing the damage as it waits for the magma chamber to erupt with time.

There are so many examples to look at among different nations.

First up most frequently appeared in news media is China US bilateral ties issue which goes a long way, and is made worse with white house support Google from getting bullied by Baidu who is protecting the China identity at home and online.

Next up is US versus Iran, the quest to sweep the root of the terrorist clean and flush them out but it still has a long way to go. USA once missed the chance to plug out Osama Bin Laden as reported in one of the news reports last time, wanting to silence the ring leader, father of the terrorist who was personally trained by the US themselves.

Up next will be Thailand politics chaos situation, with the red shirt versus the yellow shirt. Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra who made billions upon using his politics influence to increase his wealth, avoided paying tax and accused by current prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva who is constantly digging for new evidence to upset and reduce his influence in Thailand wanting to silence the opposition the red shirt but has yet to see any improvement, in fact he made the Thailand economy worse following the recent demonstration just in front of the Thailand airport causing it to be closed for a day, out of business suffering huge losses.

Up next closely is Korea, North and South Korea always appear in the news yearly due to tensions between cross-border with communist and democratic country respectively with the display of their military might and protection from strong nations from Russia and US respectively as backing.

The rest that follows are just minor national tensions purely for profits and tourism competition that not as important as those above.

Tensions arise for many reasons, without early antidote, it will escalate bigger and bigger over time like a volcano, once erupted, serious damage will be felt and casualties and business losses of people who live around the volcano area suffers.

Tensions are just identical to our health. A cold may be a minor issue which can heal and thus often overlooked, but it is leaves any after-effects, it will lead to serious complications, as cold, flu and cough are the minor symptoms.

Health is the core problem for individuals. Business tensions is the core problems for countries while politics and military related concerns affects the whole world if not at least the surrounding countries when there’s a surge in military might with purchase of weapons.

The next time you get into any disagreement, solve it instantly if not as soon as possible, else it will escalate into another business war whereby companies lose, profits reduced and only the consumers benefit from business battle. If it’s individual, sooner or later there will be more stares, arguments before turning to catfights or business sabotage depending on the genders.

So handle any arguments addressing right to the root of the problem, look at what caused the problem, don’t solve it only from the surface which will not help.

If you need examples: Look at hospitals around the whole world, the patients get sicker and more illness especially terminal and expensive illness find their way onto the patients increasing their burden. Have you ever heard of patients suffering from TCM, not even once at all since history?

Look at the difference, which medical practice should you seek help from, answer is obvious, if you want to save more money, choose TCM, but start early, and it will save you mountains of money bit by bit starting from young as TCM is all about healing all weakness of the body that cause a illness to surface, while western drugs only help heal the illness which has surface and not the root of the problem.

Understand the cause and effect, and entrepreneurship will be a breeze for those who understand it, building a strong mind with the right foundation as basics.

Good habits start from young.

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Arrogance is to be overbearing to the extent that people around them disapprove of their behavior or actions. It is the offensive display of superiority or self-importance without any humility.

Arrogant behavior is when people who are confident starts to show off and think that nobody is having more results, profits and potential than their peers and not thinking that someday there will be somebody who is better than them in everything appearing in front of them.

Such people assume that they are superior towards others, by being insolently proud. If you know of such people, they will only hang around people who are weaker than themselves playing the big brother looking after their smaller siblings while taking instructions from their senior brother behind the scene who is in-charge of him. The senior lets him have all the face, ego and pride, a perfect example, gangsters, loan-sharks who hang around together.

In times of trouble, than you will see each of them running for their own lives and survival in the event of a bigger group of gangsters seek revenge on the weak, particular going after a smaller group of individuals.  In Singapore, you will never ever see gangsters on equal strengths pit off against one another in a fight, it is only in Hong Kong, Japan and other countries than will you see them in the newspapers when titans fight one another.

People who are arrogant simply just display the sign of actually being a coward who depends on a group of people to solve their own personal grievances via revenge. They socialize only among themselves, and is contented with the false protection they enjoy.

Police are the military titans who are not arrogant like gangsters; in fact they just observed them like the big brother, only coming into the picture when they start to stir trouble and problems making the police job difficult.  This is a standard observation from news press all over the world; they just sit by the side and observe which has more benefits than otherwise.

In business sense and perspective, it is easier and preferred to allow your competitors whom you know at the back of your hand to survive, knowing their strengths and weakness by hard than to silence all the competitors they know and give rooms to new competitors that they now have to work hard and gathering evidence against a newly formed group making their job more difficult. Rather than killing all opposition, why not just let them survive, and only show their power when such gangs get out of hand.

The competitors can sort of like be each others allies in one way or another, given the sufficient space to live, they will not clash, than the gangsters who the police know at the back of their hands will help the police reduce their workload by stopping any newly formed gangs from increasing their territory thus in a way, that’s how the society works.

Know who your allies are and who your enemies are. Mutual cooperation is needed even if there’s a conflict of interest for survival.

“War/Business is not risky, being unprepared for war/business is risky” – Robert T.Kiyosaki.

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Relationship is an association of two or more people which is based on different purpose and bonding. It may be based on for business interactions, social commitments, interpersonal or intimate relationship.

Different purpose of relationship requires different methods of handling, and understanding how it works is the key to solving the root of the problems should it surface.

The root and basics of relationship management is to look at the difference between how a man and a woman handle relationship.

There is a common saying “Men can forget but they cannot forgive. Women can forgive but they cannot forget.”

During a courtship, there is both positive and negative behavior which we can learn from relationship. Relationship management is just like a business and it requires time, effort, commitment and collaboration from both parties to work.

In the process of the courtship, it is sweet, once the courtship is over and grow into a relationship before it evolve into a either a break-up or marriage followed by everlasting love if not separation followed by divorce.

The spectrum of transition of relationship is all about business transaction these days due to the change in culture and influences. Romance; love; commitment; responsibility; accountability ; management; operations; protection; expansion.  It is all about the cycle before it duplicates itself or it dies off.

Romance is sweet like an appetizer, a small dish to stimulate a desire for more.  It can be of in all flavors depending on the person’s character and personality. It is the selection of which appetizer is suitable for you like choosing a partner.

Once you take your pick, you start to taste it, the taste lingers in your mouth, either your taste buds accept it if not reject it. If you accept it, it starts to go inside, making you hungry wanting more increasing your appetite. It is the courtship whereby you want to consume it, but it just does not want you to know what the next dish is. With anticipation, the desire grows, like in a courtship, from hands to shoulders to waist, hips, kissing and other intimate actions translating romance into love.

Love is when you start to have the taste of the dish, and you ask for more, wanting the next dish to be served fast. Short light kiss becomes French-kissing and it proceeds further with hands into the picture. Like you start off with different breads, applying either butter or jam just simply hands and or with just a butter knife. As you progress, you start using tools to consume more and the tools get more, which is when intimacy increases and clothes start dropping piece by piece.

Commitment is when the main course get served, finally you see the dish in front of you, salivating, starts drooling and you can’t wait to consume the main dish. It is whereby clothes are completely removed; all you see in front of you is the naked body. Alluring, sexy with a sense of curiosity of how it will be like.

With a slice of cut on the meat, you put it into your mouth, its equivalent to making a commitment, a promise to your partner that you will stay by his/her side. Soon as you consume the main dish, you start to fell the slight fullness in your stomach. As foreplay moved into intercourse, the promise is made and commitment sets in.

Having finished the main course, the rest of the course can be predicted, with the delicious dish already served, whatever dish coming up next is just lighter in flavor then the main course which was just finished. Like after the intercourse, ejaculation sets in, satisfaction in both parties. The customer decides to stay till the end of the course, while the cook is happy that the customer enjoyed the main course.

With that, responsibility takes places. You will start discussing how nice the dish was previously, and perhaps next time your choice of dishes if you were to come back again. Similarly like how ladies like to hug their partners after it, lying on their partner’s chest or in the arms, looking into the eyes, smiling happily, chatting about the feelings during the intimate physical contact.

Accountability sets in soon after, like the dessert that’s coming up next, it can be of either hot or cold dessert to tantalize your taste buds usually ending with sweet desserts so the customer will come back for more. Like a happy couple resting in the comfort of each other, either one waking up slightly earlier to prepare breakfast for the other partner, leaving sweet memories and closing the chapter leaving wonderful and pleasant memories, allowing the couple to make plans for marriage.

Management is the bills of the whole set breakfast/lunch/dinner. Settling the bills, checking if the bill is right for any overcharging like a couple in bliss, planning for the next session with budgeting involved now.

Budgeting includes the promise and if the partner is responsible for his/her actions before a second and three set meal can be consumed together. Discussed wisely, the budget only gets sweet and larger with more commitments and responsibilities like choice of restaurant, if want to upgrade to a higher class restaurant paying for the service and ambiance similarly to discussion of settling down for a family.

Operations is how the restaurant runs the after sales service, the methods which they will offer to give you reasons to patronize the restaurant or their service again. It is when the partner shows his/her attention, care and concern for each other to make it work and have the relationship running smoothly without any food scraps getting stuck in between the teeth.

Protection is whereby restaurants come up with new dishes, promotions to attract and retain their valued customers. This is when business rivals surface allowing the customers to chance to taste other recipes and dishes. This will be when partners come up with new tricks such as new image, choice of clothes, some teasing, and new positions and change of environment to entice their own partners to stay faithful and loyal to each other.

Expansion is when the business is doing well; restaurant owner decides to open another outlet via franchise model duplicating their success. It is whereby both partners planting and wants seeds to be planted in the farmlands. For males, it’s to get the female pregnant, for females, it is to get married and the cycle continues, this time on the baby inside the womb.

Transactions are happening everyday, every second, how you run the business and how much you profit depends on you and nobody else. Learn management skills, it is the skill that is applicable to anything and everything.

Have a profitable business and a happy marriage. =)

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Fast is a word used to describe anything that is moving, functioning or have a quick; swift; rapid results.

It is also to firmly fix into a place that is not easily moved, to achieve a permanent lasting or unchangeable results.

Look at our daily activities where fast efficiency is strongly emphasis, who are the people who are really encouraging the order to be efficient, and who gains from being efficient? Take a look at any employment, businesses, and ask yourself that question.

What benefit did you yourself get when you are efficient at work? The project is delivered on time, the company makes the profit, which in turn increases the clients’ trust in the company who takes the credit, and get more projects in future. Do you have a instant pay rise for each successful project or assignment which you have completed at work? The answer is straight forward, NO WAY will you ever get fast pay increment for the profits you help the company and your employer makes.

In the employment world, employees are getting paid only less than ten percent of the total value of the profits they help deliver to the company and the business. From CEOs helping close billions worth of projects, their reward at year end, only a few millions around one to five million at most, which is less than one percent of the profit the CEO help the company made.

Such is the world of employment whereby if you want to earn fast money, simplest way is to work in an employment and get paid peanuts, thus job is always said to be in a Just Over Broke living on monthly salary.

Fast is not a good practice to begin with. We all seriously want to have a slow setting, look at the service line in particular the food and beverage industry. Do the high class restaurants and hotels rush the customers to finish the food fast or do small scale low class restaurants and coffee shops encourage this behavior? Providing quality service and comfort is the factor allowing businesses to make profits, not fast efficiency which will have negative impact on the business.

Even in the any food preparation for a dinner, in particular large scale dinner for a company event or wedding, it takes time again to do preparations for it. Weeks of planning, food tasting, budgeting, fine tuning the choice of dishes and ensuring quality so to deliver the final product on the day of the event which takes time and again, it must be done slowly to allow customer satisfaction.

In business, the person who takes the first mover advantage is usually the biggest winner even if other competitors jump into the arena, but the difference is, the former is prepared for the battle whereas the latter is totally unprepared and caught off guard by the sudden increase in demand for the certain business which brings in profits, without understanding anything, they throw in lots of investments, just to be on the bandwagon and the results are fatal.

Look at the Luohan Fish and Bubble Tea business which has died down in Singapore and is no longer as profitable as it once used to be. All these are fast business overnight but as fast as they come, the leave equally as fast too.

In health and medical science, there is again another clear example of being slow works better than fast.

The western preference of instant drugs and medications versus traditional Chinese Medicine via acupuncture practice which requires time to heal the patient with long period of time of session which is slow as compared to fast remedy of western drugs and medication which cannot heal but rather only delay the situation from getting any worse and it comes with side effects as well that caused a lot of problems surfacing with time.

With 5,000 years history of TCM (traditionally Chinese medicine using natural herbs) practice in China, western drugs and medication which is less than hundreds of years, there is absolutely no way that drugs in the form of medication made up of chemicals will do the body any good. In fact herbs and TCM via herbs and herb therapy can really heal a person from the root of the problem, but not drugs which just remove the tip of the ice berg only. Drugs only became popular at WWII when there were heavy casualties which are the only catalyst to fast remedy.

The only reason modern medical science is making way much more money and profits is because they are fast, and helps people who do not mind wasting more money paying for temporary solution which leads to side effects of another symptoms and health complications costing you more money.

If you are looking for permanent remedy to the root of the problem, seek TCM, likewise if you seek to accumulate wealth, be an entrepreneur, that starts from the mind and getting into the right thinking first before anything else.

If you want to make money, you go fast. If you want to make profits and accumulate wealth, you do it slow and that leads to entrepreneurship.

True the TRUE?? You decide.

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Repercussion is an effect or result of an action. It is the rebound or recoil of something after impact.

Whatever we do, there are repercussions be it positive or negative. Doing anything without first thinking will invite negative results.

Poor people often do not think of their actions they want to do first than blunt it out without thinking. Than when the results are unsatisfactory, they will than go back to the same person and make a din, noise creating a messy and nasty situation over a small problem. Guys and gals often do this, like hens flipping their wings than going around the other hens.

With huge authority comes huge responsibility which requires board shoulders to take accountability of their actions and decisions. Repercussions should be considered before anything is done.

In religion, it is about sin and blessing, for others its cause and effect while others is about karma.

No matter what you do, there is always the result which will be out and made know to people even if you do not like it.

Learn to face the music regardless of it being noise or music.

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Criticize is to judge or discuss the merits and faults of anything. It is the act of passing judgment as to either the merits faultfinding in anything. It can be said or passed around in words during discussion, comments, articles, and essays or even in television shows and drams.

Criticism is not welcomed in employment or at work. Nobody likes to be criticizing or be put down to in front of others. Losing pride ego and face is what Asians detest most, thus people can only hide the truth from their friends, relatives, even family members for wanting to hear words pleasant to their ears only.

Refusal to accept criticism is a sign of failure and the root of the problem that poor people hold and embrace tightly in their heart. People hang around people to feel happy and to encourage one another, but what if the company, band of friends you’re hanging around wish otherwise, reluctance to see you improve and surpass them leaving you behind. It is their reluctance to let go and see you succeed that cause friends and company to be the deciding factor in your result.

At work, if you’re new, speaking against a superior, you will get blacklisted and people will start to find faults with everything and anything that you do.

At home, if you’re young, speaking against an elder or senior, even if you’re right, they think that you’re always wrong because you are younger than them that kind of mentality.

If you want to succeed, hang and mix around with people who will be happy and willing to extend their helping hand. That is why successful people hang around with successful people; you don’t see successful people hanging around with failures who aren’t willing to improve themselves.

Example, look at the way crabs are being kept in supermarkets, those selling normal black colour crabs beside them selling Japanese crab etc. Why some crabs do is trapped in a cage while some are left in a tank without a lid to prevent them from escaping.

The next time you see both kinds of crabs side by side, ask the seller why the difference in handling and selling them, once you hear it yourself or look long enough observing those crabs. You will understand why the difference in treatment when both species of crabs tries to escape, and see how they react. (I heard this from my senior last time when I was in the previous employment)

If you want to succeed, hang around with people who are happy to be asked questions, receive feedbacks even if it’s a nasty comment or remarks etc. While it is not a pleasant experience, but with every new complaint or feedback you can improve faster and better than people who are only accepting the good and rejecting the bad thus there’s no room for improvements.

With lots of criticism, will increase the room for improvements thus there are companies, business who are able to position and brand themselves as the luxury top tail brand in the market. Looking and learning from mistakes of others where they refuse to listen is a key factor which determines the success or downfall of anything.

Are you willing to accept and receive criticism with happiness or are you going to deny them? Its your choice and what future you want to put yourself in.

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Blame is a physiological behavior problem that everyone was taught and influenced as we all grow up. It is a negative behavior that supports and strongly encourages people to be poor and create more problems and tensions and it is everywhere and taught to exist in our subconscious.

It is the act of making negative remarks of an individual or a group when their action(s) are socially and morally wrong. Being not taking their own share of responsibility, only pushing the blame to others, they are not accountable to themselves, the group, the company and the profits, thus when you see such people in life, they are usually wanderers who have no fix group of loyal friends to themselves and are not welcomed to any events. Such people will never be successful or wealthy.

Blaming is used in our daily conversation, newspaper reports, news, shows, radio, internet and even when gaming, it happens when a person cause a team to lose in the competition. It is only used by people who are struggling to meet ends needs particular people who are working, getting a small pay cheque to meet ends’ needs. With a just over broke mentality, the poor will only think of themselves as perfect and wants everybody to change and accept that it is their fault for a failure in job or work project not taking responsibility for their own actions.

Higher level middle income to high class income earners, entrepreneurs will practice different level of accountability and responsibility which attribute to higher pay cheque and bonus because they do the fair or business well and have a code of honor and other ethical self practice which isn’t taught in school.

Entrepreneurs blame no one except for themselves for the results they are getting. The more accountability and responsible you are, the higher rate of success you will attain. It’s about taking charge of your own actions and results, and not implicating other innocent people into the picture or situation. It’s like you’re sinking in the vessel and you want somebody to sink together with you, which isn’t good to begin with. Instead of dragging down somebody, if you know you’re sinking if not dying, why not give up your own float which you’re wearing to somebody else who has a higher chance of survival.

You don’t need to drag others to hell to be successful even if it’s a failure in the project work. If it fails, and you take responsibility for the failure, at least you look and leave a good impression in front of your colleagues, employer and partners thus more projects will be entrusted to you in future.

People who pass the blame to others are myopic people who need to wear spectacles. They can’t see the damage they incur when thy do any action, thus they deserve to fail and don’t need to be bothered nor pity them for their situation. They reap what they sow and they deserve it. Give mice a cheese and they will ask you for a glass of milk. So don’t even pity those people until they are sincerely and feel remorseful upon their own reflection and shown sustainable change in behavior and actions over a long period of time before you give them the second chance.

You might want to consider praising others instead of blaming others in future if you want to have a better and brighter future.

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