Personal Narrative: Resist Playing The Blame Game

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When you are in a position to not be a nice person, that's when you find out who you really are. Some people are often more stupid than they realize. Because of our weaknesses are so easily exploited. Just like a child's clumsy fingers messing up the buttons on a shirt. It's easy to mock someone who buttoned his shirt wrongly. It's easy to mock someone who had buttoned wrongly yet remains oblivious to it. But there are also people who completely fail to realize that they buttoned them all wrongly. wrong choice, traps us on the road of no return. Imagine the fright when we realize the severity of our mistakes. An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of

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