Harriman High School

Harriman Tennessee
Teacher: Nancy Newcomb

 

Personal Responsibility

By Brittney McBroom
Grade 10

 

 

Everyone has personal responsibilities.  Some are bigger than others, but every responsibility a person has is important.  Some people choose to accept it, and some refuse to acknowledge that they own any at all. 

           

I have a responsibility as a teenager to strive to become something of importance as I grow up.  I should try to be all that I know I can be.  I also have a responsibility to set an example for the younger people around me who may look up to me or use me to help them with important decisions about their lives.  I have a responsibility as an older sister to watch out for my younger sister, and help her not to make the same mistakes I do.  As a friend I have responsibilities to all the people I call myself a friend to.  I have to be honest, caring, loving, open-minded, reliable, trustworthy, compassionate and forgiving.  I have a responsibility to look past their faults and shortcomings and realize that they are only human and every one makes mistakes.

             

As a Christian, I am responsible for all the things I say and do to others that reflect the way I truly live.  I am responsible for the way other people see Christians, and if I'm a bad example one soul could be lost forever and never even know it.  My personal responsibilities include being honest and faithful to God.  I have a responsibility to FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) to help everyone believe in God and learn to love, not hate.  I have a responsibility to conduct myself through the week as I would during Sunday morning service, sing in the choir, sing with my group, go to Sunday school, and make it to practice on time. 

           

As a child I have a responsibility to my parents to be honest with them, love them, honor them, help them, and rely on them.   I have a responsibility to my grandparents to make them proud, respect them, honor them, and trust them in the same way they do all these things for me.  I am responsible for both of my sisters, my dogs, and myself.  I have a responsibility to clean my room, help with the chores, wash my clothes, keep my sister's car clean, and help out wherever it may be needed.  I am responsible for being home on time, and being where I'm suppose to be, when I'm suppose to be there, and being with whom I said I was going to be.  I am responsible for my actions, words, and thoughts.  When I'm out with my friends I have a responsibility to my parents to act like I would if they were there.

             

I have a responsibility to myself and my family to be me, stand up for what I believe in, be true to myself and always do my best. When I go out somewhere I have the responsibility to the people around me to be cautious, kind, and courteous.  I have to be on my best behavior and use my best manners.  I have responsibility not to drink or do drugs.  I am responsible for getting up every morning, going to school, doing my homework, and being in bed on time every night. 

           

I have a responsibility to my teachers to try my best, listen to them, respect them, trust them, help them, and learn from them.  In softball, I have a responsibility as a teammate to give support, help out, try my best, work as team and not just one, and to respect myself and others.  As and annual staff member I have the responsibility of taking pictures, keeping up with them, and putting them where they need to be. 

           

No one can choose and make your decisions for you and no one can make you be responsible.  Responsibility comes with age, wisdom, and knowledge.  If you are responsible you tend to be trusted more with people, money, belongings, promises, feelings, and duties.  In my life I have a lot of things to be responsible for, whether it's a responsibility to myself or to someone else, I consider all of them to be highly important.  I know that I have all of them for a reason.  Responsibility teaches you to be a better person, to rely on yourself, how to think for yourself, and how to win the trust of others.  At some point or another everyone has something they are going to be responsible for, and whether or not you are responsible for doing something wonderful of something horrible is completely up to you.