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%RESPONSIBILITY FOR FULFILLMENT 780512
Sometimes we presume that there exist
responsibilities to assure personal fulfillment; i.e.,
somebody is responsible for guaranteed personal
fulfillment. We may assume responsibility for our own
fulfillment, may assume the responsibility for another
person's fulfillment, may place the burden for our own
self-fulfillment upon a different person, or may burden
another person with the responsibility to guarantee the
fulfillment of yet a third. Our presuppositions take for
granted that fulfillment can be earned or granted as a
right, that it may be guaranteed, that it may be
achieved/caused, and/or that it is occasioned by the
fulfillment of expectations. Our fulfillment does not
necessarily come with the fulfillment of expectations---
although it sometimes does.
Our fulfillment pertains to subjective realizations,
not to objective processes which are subject to human
control. Our fulfillment is as much a gift which is
beyond control, as it is a goal which is attainable. The
more direct and explicit our effort to achieve
fulfillment, the more elusive is the goal. Fulfillment is
not a gift which we can by intent, planning, techniques,
and effort give to another person. Human fulfillment is
an unplanned/unsought benefit which is given to those who
affirm other's freedom: to be themselves, to sustain
their integrity, to communicate with themselves and others
without fear. The justified people live by faith, yet not
just faith, but rather faith realized in work with power,
and expressed with hope through love in an honest way.
For us to claim a right to fulfillment is to
undermine th possibility of our fulfillment. The more
demanding and legalistic is our claim, the more it will
undermine the possibility of our receiving the gift of
fulfillment. Often the promise of the gift is offered to
us, but unconditionally---a way which is not acceptable to
us. To accept fulfillment free of conditions is
paradoxically experience by us as a threatening
requirement; we must accept the "conditions" of an
unmerited gift. Such an acceptance undermines our notion
of having merited fulfillment, and therefore our notion of
our being responsible for human fulfillment. Such
acceptance may appear to be evil, thus we may strive to
prevent such acceptance of love as offered.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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