Reading book makes me know what is personal responsibility

I have read Atlas Shrugged, and I learn that personal responsibility is very important and meaningful for all of us. So I share what I feel there, and if you like it, you can read this fantastic book.

I learned something important about personal responsibility in this book. Firstly, responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. We can find in this book that people who are more famous, who can easier to show us their personal responsibility. In other way, the people have more power should have more personal responsibility to others. As ordinary people, we can have ordinary life. We don’t need to have big personal responsibility for people. As we have little influence to others, the personal responsibility is little. But those people who are famous, who are smart, and who have large power; they have more personal responsibility than us. Maybe a word from them will change the situation of the world, so they need to have a deep thought before their every action. And what they achieve can make a difference in the world, like John finally destroys the original world, and founds a world he wants. If we want have more power, we need to pay more personal responsibility.

Secondly, when we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone. Hank is the character that I like most in this book. He don’t care what other people says to him. Even his wife, brother, and mother cannot change his mind. The only thing he knows is to create the best metal –Rearden Metal. He put all his time and energy on it. For him, making Rearden Metal is his personal responsibility, and he is the only one taking charge, and he doesn’t have to ask others for permission. It is his personal responsibility that he doesn’t give government his Rearden Metal; he want to give what he has for Dagny, and this is also his personal responsibility. We don’t need to ask others, our personal responsibility belongs to us.

Besides, you must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you are in charge of. John Galt is a good example for that. When he was a worker at 20^th century motor factory, he found that the whole cannot be rescued, so he decides to use his own energy to destroy the power of the world. He doesn’t hope the society can change, he knows that the only thing he can do is to believe himself. He takes his personal responsibility to save the people who suffer from this world. So more and more brilliant people quit, John finally achieve his goal. Other people who don’t take personal responsibility will be abandoned at last. Like James Taggart, he fakes Cheryl to get respect, he rely on Dagny to run Taggart Transcontinental, and he want to gain without taking personal responsibility. So he gets nothing in the end. Take you own personal responsibility, it is an indispensable thing to success.

Finally, I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity is an obligation and every possession is a duty. The people in the world need to learn to do good things for others, like people—Hank, Dagny, John, and Francisco in the book. Don’t act like James, Dr. Ferris, and Mr. Thompson. We gain something from the society, so we need to pay something back. The people who only know asking will get nothing in the end, the people who know sacrifice will gain more beyond imagination. Our personal responsibility is to give, and to make others living in a good life.

All in all, we need to be the kind of people who believe ourselves, sacrifice to others, know what personal responsibility is, and take our personal responsibility to create a brighter future.