What is the difference between responsibility and duty? And obligation?
Responsibility is something you have FOR YOURSELF whether you like it or not. You took it on when you drew your first breath and cannot get out of it.
Duty is something you can take on and you can put down. One’s duties never bother us if we realize this. When you gave birth to children you took on the duty to see after their welfare. You could put down the duty by having them adopted out, but you probably would not. Most of us do not want to put down our duties.
When you decide to take charge of how happy your children are or making them “happier,” you take on false responsibilities. This is interference. You may see to their welfare, but not their happiness. You cannot think for them.
Obligation is another word for duty. By your own sense of well-being you take up duties. But you have no responsibility for anyone else and when you think you do, you are confused.
If I blame you for my unhappiness, I am denying my responsibility.
If I try to be responsible for your happiness, I am taking up a duty which does not belong to me.
From https://donnalancaster.net/
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