Enough With The Blame Game - 939 Words

ENOUGH WITH THE BLAME GAME So, it a Thursday morning and I am at work reading News Papers. I always want to be up-to-date with current affairs in my country Uganda and all over the world. Politics interest me, and it always makes headlines. If you looked at today’s New Papers, you would see what I am saying. These stories will either be good or bad, depending on a particular News Paper’s ideology or conception of the events. Yes, they take sides too; which is okay, don’t we all? Speaking of taking sides, why do we always take our side? Why do we always blame our failures and all the mischief in this world on other people? Why are we always right and others wrong? Sometimes I want to think it is instinct; that we are born with an inherent aspiration to choose our side over anyone else’s; that we are supposed to be our own defenders, at all material times and that we never go wrong in our own eyes, but is this so? 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