There is a story in the Independent today entitled  “Addict says sorry for car-jack attack”  about a drug addict who hijacked a car and ended up crippling the woman who owned it.  He was sent to jail, as he should have been.  The interesting thing was that he has just written to his victim “After watching the news and seeing your face, I realised it’s time to stop using drugs and change my attitude. Nothing in the past has really given me an incentive to stop, but when you explained what you went through, I wished I wasn’t born.”   It can’t make it up to the woman concerned or her family, but perhaps is the beginning of the Change process.

Until we recognise and own our mistakes, and take responsibility for their consequences, we can’t move forwards.

 “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”  Denis Waitley

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”   Winston Churchill

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