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Responsibility
By Michael P. S.
Sr. Software Engineer I
Denver, CO
4-27-2002
When I was six years old, I was the fastest kid in my neighborhood. I
used to race everyone and run everywhere. I used to run to the
playground and run up and down the sidewalk. We had a store that sold
milk and different flavored drinks. I would collect the empty bottles
out of the trash and turn them in for the five-cent deposit. After I
had enough bottles, I would run to the store and turn my bottles in for a
quart of flavored drink. This was especially fun on a hot day. I'd run
to the store and run back. As I said, I was a fast runner; so fast I
thought I was invincible. I would run like the "Flash" listening for
the wind passing my ears, going faster and faster as the wind got
louder. I was so fast; I believed I could get across the street without
getting hit by a car. In fact, I had done it so many times; I believed
I would never get caught. One hot day, I collected my bottles and ran
the to drink store. I turned in my bottles, got my flavored drink. I
was in heaven! I got to the street, saw a car coming and sped across as
I usually do. I made it! Boy was I fast. I looked back and saw this
little kid, around four years old. He was starting to run across the
street too! I started to tell him to stop, but he saw the car and
tried to turn back! The car hit him...
That day was probably the fastest I've ever run in my life. I ran and
ran and ran. I didn't look back. I was so afraid and so ashamed. What
was I running from? I believe I was running away from responsibility.
That day and ever since; I realized sometimes you run into
responsibility, responsibility runs into you or you run away from it.
People are watching you all the time. Not just those younger than
you, but people you don't even know that may admire, respect you or
think you are cool.
Being as a Christian today you have a responsibility not just to follow the
way, but become the way. Today I don't have to think about my
responsibilities to others when crossing the street, because that has
become apart of me. The responsibilities we have as Christians should
become apart of us. We never know when we may run into responsibility
or responsibility my run into us and we don't want to look back on our
lives and find that we ran away from it. Don't just practice what you
preach; become what you preach.
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