Responsibility

Responsibility, the word often used by mothers or even adults in general and also the one of the many words which creep teenagers out. Today the author would like at pick at the term, the concept of responsibility.(Yes, he was inspired to write about it because he got one of those 'oh so dreaded' lectures about it.) Responsibility is often confused with maturity, now the author would like to emphasize that they are completely two very different things.(No, not only because of their spellings, but also because of their meanings!) As far as maturity goes, it is more or less the act of understanding your duties and also what is wrong and right in life. Maturity does not, i repeat, it does NOT dump itself upon you. Whereas on the other hand, our dear old friend responsibility, at some point of time in every ones life's, decides to dump itself on them.(Yes the fact that it also help shape their lives is important.) Now as is widely believed, people tend to think that children do not have any responsibilities,(By children, the author also means teenagers, so kindly do not sue him for not making a separate mention). Children and teenagers in all their innocence (And not so much innocence, in the case of teenagers), still do shoulder responsibility. Lets for instance take the life of a school going kid, it is indeed full of responsibilities, the poor child has the often maddening responsibility of doing his homework(The author agrees that homework sounds like a trivial thing, but he would also like to point out that it is children we are talking about). Similarly in the case of teenagers, their responsibility is to learn the ropes of life and do well in their studies so as to have a good future.(Yes, it also partly means that they need to be more understanding towards their parents.).But, now we come to the point where adults seem to have a distorted view of things, according to most of the so called grown up and more responsible part of the population, being responsible means that a person should stop having fun in life and forever be bogged down by things which should not be thought on for too long. Now the author for one has a different view about responsibility, yes he agrees that it is essential to life, but also he believes that responsibility can never be completely full filled until you now what the other form of life is like too. Yes, be serious when you have too, be all responsible, but have fun while doing it too, make sure you know that you can laugh and make others laugh as well. responsibility is a part of life, not life a part of responsibility.
Moral of the essay - the author wants you to always have fun in life, come what may!