How to Avoid Responsibilities

Anxiety Culture: How to Avoid Responsibilities:

"...by the time we become adults, our avoidance and evasion skills are badly under-developed. When we finally get high blood pressure or ulcers, we need to drop social duties and quit work, but nothing in our upbringing tells us how to make this escape.

...A mind that sees “avoiding responsibility” as cowardly and dishonourable will never achieve full relaxation (ie letting go of all concerns). It’s impossible to be duty-bound and happy at the same time, which is why those who obey social commandments usually look unsatisfied."