This is powerful. Powerful in a good way, and powerful in a not-so-good way. When I first heard about "playing the victim" I was truly shocked. But here and h

This is powerful. Powerful in a good way, and powerful in a not-so-good way. When I first heard about "playing the victim" I was truly shocked. But here and here I would find some good piece of writing about "Don't be a victim..." and similar ideas along the same line. It took me a few well written articles, months to digest them, and deep long meditations, writing about a hundred blog posts but I am now grasping the concept and - date to say - it has changed my life. I don't know about you, but not everything in my life goes as planned, and at times things go wrong despite my best work, and at times things even go terribly wrong. In those moments, and in the post-mortem analysis, my starting point is that I was at least partly accountable/responsible for the outcome, the only question is the % of accountability/responsibility; and then - most importantly - what measures to take, anything from "doing nothing" to "hurry to stop the ripple effects" and everything else in between. It's not that before I was constantly playing the victim, but .... observing the world while taking the polar opposite stand from a victim's position opens interesting perspectives and problem-solving algorithms. There are truly victims out there, victims of terrible actions and behaviors; I am not referring to them, I am actually talking about me and me only. I am sure we're going to see more of these writing on the same concept and - IMO - it's pure gold!