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Shirking Responsibility
US News
W.A. Beatty / American Thinker
I got an e-mail the other day from my oldest daughter, who is pushing forty. She and her husband bought a house in the Florida Keys a few years ago. Soon after buying it, they moved to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) for two years. They have since returned. She says that now, regarding the house, "We are having to grow up and we HATE it!!"
She continued:
… while we were in the BVI we had decided to be scum just like everybody else in this country and stop paying our mortgage and drag out a short sale for 2 years (while renting the house to someone and pocketing the $). But at the end of the day, we just couldn't do it. It is wrong and as Andy [her husband] said one day, "It's not that we CAN'T pay the note, it's that it is difficult to pay it." We don't want to be scum and if we lose it, we will never get another one down here.
I wrote back to her that "growing old is inevitable, but growing up is optional." Never confuse the two concepts, I told her. There are plenty of "old" people who are scum, who shirk responsibilities that they signed on for, then walked away.
You cannot avoid getting old! It happens to the best of us. But you can certainly avoid growing up! The key concept, I told her, was to never avoid or shirk responsibility, but at the same time to never "grow up" — to be a child (with all the wonder that entails) for your entire life. Enjoy life to the fullest, and always be able to laugh — especially at yourself. I quoted American Clergyman Roy L. Smith: "The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man" (or in this case, a woman).
continue at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/shirking_responsibility.html#ixzz22aTvoP6t
