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Everyone has a duty to take care of something or someone. Since he who doesn’t have a duty – doesn’t feel it necessary to do anything useful, he doesn’t bare any responsibility and doesn’t have a goal of reaching any particular results.

It is one thing when I am reluctant to impose myself on others. But if I am not willing to take any responsibility just because I feel more comfortable that way – it is a very serious blemish.

Jesus Christ said: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself”. But to love oneself doesn’t mean to seek gain for oneself. It means to respect oneself, because our Lord created us all intelligent, he gave us dignity, lots of talents and a calling. If I got all of these, it means all other persons got it all as well. Thus, to love my neighbour means to respect him in a way I want to be respected by him. Because I respect myself, I respect myself as our Lord’s creation, as our Lord’s child, as a human being who thinks, behaves responsibly and takes into account other persons’ needs, who is not indifferent to those who surround me, and who, therefore, respects others because they are God’s creatures just just like me.

Laziness.

Arseniy Troshchak, 11 years old, Lviv

Laziness.

Daryna Klyusa, 6 years old, Halych (Ivano-Frankivsk region)

Laziness.

Mikhailo Kushnirchuk, age 8, Ivano-Frankivsk