The Declaration Of My Personal Independence

When I take my attitude from my own individual perspective, then i must truly say to myself I am responsible for my thoughts, feelings, and deeds.  Since i am the only person who is privileged to know my thoughts, feel my feelings, and do my deeds; then i must take full credit and blame for them.  In a sense that is the "Declaration Of My Personal Independence" ... it declares that I am a free man.  I do not say it lightly, or with irony.  That perspective is the only one that i can honestly take.

The paradox is I can not  limit my responsibility only to myself and be quite so very free and independent.  For were that freedom quite so limitless, i could intend and effect whatever changes solely myself. Yet I have found that is not factually the case.  There are many things that i can intend to change ... even want to change ... even, in my opinion, should be changed ... yet they cannot be changed unless i cooperate with other people.  These changes are not trivial matters to me.  I will not be oblivious to their happening.  They are among the changes which might  eventually make  the mankind of the future spectacularly better than it is today.  In my sovereignty i accept the responsibility for these things happening or not.

Now let me talk to you ... and by "you" i mean any human being who happens to be reading this.  You might reasonably think, "Hey your intended changes are not on my agenda, go mind your own business".  You are, after all, a sovereign human just like me.  In which case i would totally agree and i would do likewise.  But what if you agree with me, that these changes should happen and we form a bond to cooperate to make them happen.  In fact the only way these changes will happen, is if we to cooperate to manifest them. 

Now some people exclude these kind of changes from their responsibility ... and that solves their paradox.  One simply says, what will be, will be ... whatever happens is good ... and one synchronizes ones intentions with what actually is happening and/or what one can make happen on their own ... no cooperation from others at all necessary.   In that state, everything that is done feels very good.  I have done that myself and actually quite like the feeling ... so I certainly understand and respect when people espouse that attitude. 

I however do not choose that attitude as always controlling my being.  Rather at times i choose that some of the changes that, me thinks will contribute to the future glory of humanity, and which require others cooperation, are more important, even to me, than my personal feeling of synchronicity.   So then maintaining that cooperation becomes my responsibility, notwithstanding its temporary conflict with my other intentions. 

If you bother to read this at any depth, please consider it a work in progress.

Well it doesn't feel like driving to me ... whether on tracks or in free-form.  It just doesn't feel that way.  Rather it feel more like flashes of awareness ... and me there examining and connecting the dots ... to better to grock and to feel the experience.

Certainly the flip side of cooperation is opposition.  Sometimes opposition makes the other cooperation stronger ... sometimes it kills it.  Seems to me that is part of the strength of diversity ... that that grand and glorious being called humanity that is part of life itself .

... anyway.

The distinction between what is inside or outside myself is frequently arbitrary, often ambiguous, and certainly open to my interpretation...

... so too must necessarily be the source of my experience.

Therefore, I can take a view that my experience is sourced from inside myself... or alternatively from outside myself. 

Some people prefer to view their experience being caused form outside ... especially bad experience ... then they see themselves as a victim.  Others prefer to view their experience being caused by themselves ... especially good experience ... then they feel themselves as god like.

Me, i like to use my intelligence and try to be objective in  determining  the source of my experience ... good or bad.

Well, wiggy wobby woo bar ... i was certainly not accusing you of being in the wrong here ... and there was no RWG going on untill you just now mentioned it.   I can only surmise that you took my arbitrary example personally ... were i to write that again i would choose something less personal. 

Oh well, your always listening heard RWG again where it was not intended ... and, for you, apparently stopped any useful inquiry into the subject. 

Incidentally ... on the bright side ...  your contrafactual explanation of how you deem yourself not responsible for your own actions is the funniest thing i have heard so far this year!
... RWG, eh?  .... my RWG too ? ... Shirley you jest.  But, strangely enough i really do not know.