Blame

Blame serves one major purpose: To resign ones own responsibility for something.

As soon as I blame someone else for something that is happening, something I am going through, or something I am feeling, I relinquish my own responsibility for it and hand that responsibility over to someone else. At least, I do that in my own head. But the problem with blaming someone else is that when I relinquish my responsibility, I also relinquish my ability to change the situation or make it better. I let go of my own ability to take action. Responsibility = response-ability, the ability to respond. When I blame other people for problems, I completely lose my own ability to create solutions.