Take Responsibility

I find it so amusing when people blame others for their own mistakes. Recently in Boston, a taxi cab had picked up a family from Logan International Airport and had taken them to their home.  The family was really nice, paid and tipped the taxi driver and sent him on his way.  Several minutes later, said taxi driver gets a call from the cab pool at the airport stating that Logan police were looking for hm.  Apparently the family that he had dropped off left their 5 year old who was fast asleep in the back seat of the taxi driver’s van and forgot to grab their child out when unloading their luggage.  Freaked out, the family called the police to let them know that their child was left in the taxi.  Due to the family’s neglect, the taxi driver, after dropping the child back off at its house, was then questioned by police, as if it were his fault that the child was left in his cab.  Apparently taxi cab drivers have rules that they have to check the seats after each passenger, but since it was a van, the taxi driver would have to physically go into the back half of the van just to check on something that should have been handled by the child’s parents.  Luckily the parents were just happy to see their child, even tipped the driver $50 to bring the kid back. The Boston police however, wanted to suspend the taxi driver’s license for three days or until a hearing for something that was not really his fault.

This type of thing happens often in many different instances.  I go to this casting director workshop, where actors, instead of listening and taking in the criticism, choose to blame their partner for not “listening and reacting” instead of blaming themselves.  There this girl in particular who is an absolute horrible actor who does not listen at all, she goes off into her own world and believes what she does is amazing.  She will not listen to her partner or react in anyway, shape or form.  It is very frustrating. 

In the news recently there was also a family who let their children die, a fifteen month old and a teenager because one had a cyst and the other a bladder infection.  Instead of getting them help, they chose to let “God” take care of it, even if that meant they were going to die?  It is not “God’s” fault that these children who could have been saved and not put through pain died, it is the stupid parents fault for letting them suffer when they could have easily gone to the doctor and been taken care of. 

In David Carradine’s death, people were trying to find someone to blame, whether it be a hooker, a lover, etc.  The public and family would not admit that he had a sexual problem and that yes he could have accidently killed himself while committing a sexual act of pleasure.

Why do humans refuse to take blame for things that are their fault? If I did something wrong, I am the first to admit it, fix it and move on, nothing will get fixed if you keep passing the blame.