This is http://www.essayz.com/a9303082.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ROOT TRAGIC CONFLICT SINCERE COLLUSIVE DENY TRUE+930308 %ALIENATIVE EVIL DISINTEGRATIVE PARADIGM TRAGIC+930308 %RESPONSIBILITY SALVATION FAIL RESCUE ADDICT 930308 Many of us fall into the trap of believing it is our responsibility to save addicts from their foolishness. Salvation is not our business. We are not responsible for people's salvation. We are not God. The fact that there are people in the world who refuse to take good care of themselves is not a blemish upon our record. We are not responsible for their mistakes; they are. We are responsible for taking good care of ourselves, so that in loving others as we love ourselves we will be behaving responsibly. If we refuse to take good care of ourselves we may make others suffer, because they may think that they are responsible for our mistakes. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================