Self-accountability is the noblest of all noble qualities.
In a real sense all other virtues, such as honesty and
truth, are inherent in self-accountability.

The meaning expressed in Shakespeare's assertion,
"To thine own self be true , and it must follow, as the
night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man,"
is rooted in and derived from self-accountability. Being
true greatly depends on being acountable to oneself.
It is this that enables a person to take responsibility for
the choices he makes and accept the conseqences
of those choices, even when they are not the ones
expected. Self-accountability enalbes a person to
own all the expressions of his behavior.

Self-acountability is the cornerstone or essence of
ethics and being a moral person. It is not just what
we do when others are observing us or when we
think they are likely to find out what we do but what
we do when no one is watching and we believe that
no one is likely to discover what is a secret hidden
from everyone else.

Never is a person more responsible and authentic
than when he is accountable to self, above being
accountable to anyone else. Framing Shakespeare's
comment regarding "not being false to others" the
read is, be accountable to yourself and then you
cannot be unaccountable to any one else. Good,
right and beauty are actualized in self-accountability.

Cease making primary being accountable to others.
Be aware that the most important things in life a
person has to do for himself. And the most important
thing a person can do for himself is to be accountable
to himself. Utimately we can say, self-acountability is
the supreme court of one's soul and personhood.

Question: Where do you stand?

Copyright 2014 by Uriah J. Fields