I was suddenly reminded of ‘Rejection’ as a topic of discussion when i was seeing a reality contest on TV in which every week they eliminate a contestant. During one of these episodes , a contestant couldn’t handle the fact that he did not take full advantage of the opportunity given to him and succumbed to pressures of the situation. He obviously goofed up. Instead of accepting his fault , he started throwing fits , acting as if he was getting dizzy and telling it was lack of sleep and exhaustion which was making him nervous.

What was more appalling , was judges giving him a second chance. We’ll discuss more on reality TV judges in another post but you see these kind of cover ups , blame games , passing the buck kind of instances everywhere. Is there anyone ready to take blame for the wrong that they do, the mistakes they make?

We believe in the saying “Nobody’s perfect” and “Learn from your mistakes”…. Then why do we dread accepting our mistakes , our faults?

Its rare nowadays that you meet people, who accept mistakes and do not shirk responsibility attached to their actions. But that breed is getting extinct at a disturbing rate.

What could be the reasons behind this attitude?

I’m no researcher to identify them but some which i could think of are :

Firstly , there is so much of responsibility and risk attached to each decision of yours  , that accepting blame for a wrong one may lead to immense opportunity lost.

Secondly , there is not enough transparency in systems to reveal the truth , so people hide it as far as they could.

Btw society doesn’t essentially reward people who accept responsibility for their wrong deeds/actions. So why accept ? huh…

Any more ideas??