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Amongst all those who have come across me so far ever since i started using my senses and wits, there hasn’t been an even single person who hasn’t evinced directly or indirectly wishes to be powerful. Of course, the field of power is different for different people. A wrestler wants to be powerful in muscular form, a student wants the power of intelligence, an athlete wants cardiovascular power and a politician wants ruling power.

Of course power can be attained by anybody—but there is a requirement on the part of the power seeker. Power doesn’t favour all those who seek it. It demands something from those who want it to stay with them. Those who fulfill the demand of power get bestowed with it.

Well, power comes to those people who don’t cringe when it comes to take responsibility in life---- responsibility of what you do and responsibility of what all the actions of  those who come into contact with you. We have to take responsibility of the success or failure of our efforts. Generally we see that people take responsibility of the successful tasks and deny association with unsuccessful projects. We need to take responsibility of success and failure in equal measure.

We can’t refuse to take the responsibility of the person who has become drug addicted in front of us. We can’t say that the person had decided it for himself without the slightest provocation at your end to do so. We have to take the responsibility of reforming and saving that person. We can’t entertain a person to drink in a party at our place who after leaving our place, under the influence, might race his car to an accident. A teacher can’t shirk the responsibility of the continuous poor performance of his students year after year.

You might have noticed that those people who do not take responsibility always raise complaints wherever they go or whatever they do. Instead of taking the things in their stride and get them solved, they keep on passing the buck.

Once you start passing the buck, you keep on losing opportunities of learning and improving in your life for ever. We all know that those who do not learn remain unskilled, inefficient and consequently powerless.

The moment you start taking responsibility in life, you get on your way to add power to yourself. The bigger the responsibility is the greater your power is. I was told by my pa the story of the man who took the responsibility of his district and became MLA, he took the resp. of the state and became governor. He took the responsibility of the country and it led him to be the  president .....the most powerful man of his nation. He took the responsibility of the world,  the universe and became omnipotent. Yes,  people started worshipping him as God.