All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
– Wayne Dyer
I wanted to post this as a reminder to myself. Too often I get wrapped up in “who is to blame,” and it really hinders the process of getting on with the business at hand.
This goes for everything from “who left the milk out overnight?” to “what will our kids think when they can’t afford gasoline and the only jobs are in Cheney’s Oil Liberation Army?” Blaming others only delays the inevitable having to deal.
But sometimes, it just feels good.