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Responsibility

As I was doing my laundry, my nephew aged 7 years walks to the sink with his muddy slippers and takes a hand brush and soap then he begins to clean them. Naturaly he would have dump them on the sink and attend to his business, and wait for the house help to clean them. He began cleaning them with keenest to ensure they shined. This got me thinking, what is responsibility? According to web defination, responsibility as a duty is; the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force. "We must instill a sense of duty in our children." every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."- John D. Rockeffeller Jr. My nephew was so excited on his achievement and just to show how good his work was, he hurriedly displayed his slippers to the mum with expectation of praise, but instead the mum just stared at the work and said nothing, she continued preparing lunch. I was to give a commendation later on but s...