When something goes wrong do you tend to blame yourself or other people?

@masang (295)
Philippines
May 13, 2011 7:26am CST
There were instances that I blamed myself especially If I realized that something went wrong because of my wrong decisions. But there were many moments that I'd rather blame others than myself. As a result I became self-righteous. It's not good at all. How about you?
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20 responses
• United States
14 May 11
I would say that I feel bad about the situation but try and rectify with a more positive approach as to how I can correct and or rectify. I do not like the blame games and certainly do not like taking others errors as my own. I think you are saying more that you feel bad, and want to help and or correct, hence you think you are taking blame. I tend to do that in others words help where I can and make it somehow my duty to fix.
@masang (295)
• Philippines
15 May 11
How I wish I can be more positive in my approaches. Almost all the time I'm burst in anger when something goes wrong.
• United States
13 May 11
Depends on the situation like for instance if i break something and its my fault and no one elses then ill blame my self, If someone else scrwes up but i also kind of screw up on something then ill blame that person lol, Which I think most of us would rather blame someone else then take responsibility for our own action.
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
14 May 11
Very honest submission. Congrats.
• Philippines
13 May 11
Nothing can be gained by blaming self or others. I would try instead to reflect on what and why things went wrong and try to learn from it so we can avoid repeating it. Have a nice day ahead, masang.
@masang (295)
• Philippines
15 May 11
You're exactly correct. One should reflect or examine oneself instead of blaming others or ourselves.
@jacklintan (1302)
• Malaysia
13 May 11
hi masang Blaming is a way of making yourself feeling less stressful and guilty of the mistakes that been made. well, there is no right and wrong in things we do, i think. cheer up then.
• Mexico
13 May 11
Agree with you, theres no right or wrong, only consequences for the choices we made, if we embrace them and learn from the ones that dont work out we can stop looking for someone to blame on, and look for a positve outcome from our actions instead
• Philippines
14 May 11
yes , at first i tend to blame myself when something happens unwantedly , but then as time goes by i realized that everything happens for a reason . And God has other plans better than what i wanted
• Philippines
14 May 11
depends on the scenario.. like, i made the mistake, of course i blame myself, for not doing it right and for not doing it at my best..
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
14 May 11
It depends on situation. If things gone wrong is because of my own wrong decision, then there is nothing i can blame on others. But sometimes, there are some matters which went wrong is because of another person wrong decision. Then on that matter, i will have to blame that person, if it cost a price. But, most of the time, if it is only a petty issue, i will just let go without blaming anyone. I don't want to create a small matter into a big matter and loss my friend.
@bird123 (10632)
• United States
14 May 11
I do not value blame. It really means nothing to me. I concentrate on RESULTS!!! If I don't get good results, I figure out how to get the good results. Everything else is just education on the path to the answer.
@jugsjugs (12967)
13 May 11
When things do not go right then if anything i think that i take it out on myself rather than other people around me.This week has been really bad and i do think that now that this week is nearly over that things i hope will get better.In the past i use to take things out on other people when things were going wrong.
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
14 May 11
It is all conditional. Number of actions do not reach the desired ends. Something goes wrong due to various reasons. One of them is the human element. We all try to put blame on someone including ourselves. When, in our immediate assessment the debacle occurred due to ourselves, we can only blame ourselves and go into a sense of remorse. When others are involved our initial reaction in general is to blame them. In retrospect, however, we may also exonerate them. That is a different matter.
• Philippines
14 May 11
I can't say I don't blame other people, but I also do not think that I blame too much of my self. Maybe most of the time, I try to blame the other person, but in the end... I'll think that it's my fault. SOmetimes I no longer care who to blame. It already happened and we are all involved. We can't change the mistakes we've done. What's done is done. All we can do is deal with it and prevent from happening it once again.
• Philippines
14 May 11
It is a case to case basis for me. When it is other people's fault, then I naturally blame the other person who have caused it. However, if both myself and another individual is involved or I am the reason behind the negative situation, then I generally blame myself. The bottomline is that, I made the choice and the final decision si I have to blame myself.
@casualkT (140)
• Canada
14 May 11
I don't blame myself or others. I just think that some things are out of my control like someone said you can't blame someone else - it just the decisions and timing of things and if I don't blame people then I don't blame myself ,well I probably am blaming one of them but my eye is on the cause and the blame is on effect. Different people link up to different formula of a situation. If I blame that then there is a logic
@ludyvel04 (311)
• Philippines
14 May 11
Well usually blaming ourselves or others is our immediate response when thing turned not just not right. But I realized that we shouldn't have to blame anyone, its a sin and when we conceive even a single taught of it, better pray to God and ask forgiveness. Surely He will never fail you and He will make all things just right for you.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 May 11
i usually tend to blame myself... as much as i want to blame others... haha i mean well i am hard headed sometimes and for all the results, i think i can only blame myself for it and no one else.
• United States
13 May 11
I always blame myself. I'm a perfectionist, well a recovering perfectionist. I try my best to do the correct thing and to act properly but it doesn't always work. When things go wrong I do blame myself.
• China
13 May 11
For me,sometimes after I blame someone else ,I would blame myself,though maybe what I blame him or her for is right.Once,my nephew made a mistake by accident,and I said some words strict towards him ,making him crying.About five minutes after that,I felt quite blamed with myself.Everyone makes some mistake,so there is no need to blame others or ourselves too much.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
13 May 11
I would try to wriggle out of a situation if I know that I have goofed up somewhere but would certainly not put the blame on others.
@tiina05 (2317)
• Philippines
13 May 11
hello, Actually, Its really depends on the situations but of course I rather to blame myself specially if I am the one who has the fault. right? and you have a point that it is not good at all to blame others even it was all my fault. So its alright I know someone will understands me
@Achaiah (34)
• Mexico
13 May 11
Theres no such thing as blame; blame its only an excuse to not take responsability of the choices we made. blaming ourselves or others when things didnt worked out, its only a way of evade the truth, in life we make choices and we are always responsible of those choices, if something goes wrong, there shouldnt be blame or regret as long as we did our best or did what we tought was the best Not everything works the way we want every time, but that doesnt mean we did wrong, or we have to carry any blame for it, we make a choice, we do it everyday, we just need to have in mind that whatever we do will have a consequence, so when we are going to do something just need to be fully aware of that, and make our choices knowing the consequences it will bring