Responsibility

We are born innocent but we are not born alone. From the moment we come into this world we affect the world. I breathe out, you breathe in. You breathe out, I breathe in. We are all interconnected, each the butterfly's wing that shakes the earth. What I do affects other people. I am responsible for my words and actions. Only I am responsible for my words and actions. By taking care of myself, I take care of others. By loving myself, I make myself capable of love. My responsibility to the world is to be responsible for myself. When I gaze into the mirror, I see more than me.