Wednesday, September 7, 2011

(Res)Po(n)ssibility

I was typing a quotation for a section in my paper when I mistyped what I read. The coordination of my eyes, my mind and my fingers was not too well, I thought. I typed "possibilities" instead of "responsibilities". In almost a split second, I thought of just deleting the word and retyping the correct one. I looked at the word "possibilities", and I saw I just had to type "res" before "p" and change the first "s" into an "n" and that does it!

Then it came to me - every possibility is a responsibility.

Res (genitive, rei) in Latin is "a substantive thing", "a concrete thing". To make possibilities a reality, concrete and substantive, I take responsibility.

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