I always say that no one else is responsible for your happiness, you are responsible for your thoughts, your feelings, your expectations and untill you take responsibility of everything in your life, you keep feeling weak and you cannot do anything because you feel you have no control over the things. The moment you decide its your responsibility, you feel empowered. You realise your own power. However, there is another side to it. We are burdened for our happiness and unhappiness I am saying burdened because we take responsibility as burden and moreover, we are also burdened for others unhappiness, they expect us to do something, act us certain way and when we dont, they get upset and we get further upset that we are the reason for their unhappiness….ah…so much of burden on poor heart and mind…how do you handle this…and why do we put that burden on others..and if we cant put on others we shall not take also…like you are responsible for your feelings and happiness same way they are responsible for own feelings, if they expect something from you, you have a free will to act the way you wish to and after that if they feel bad its their responsibility…so many times I get parents who are suffering because their son/daughter did not act as per them, did not fulfill their expectations and children are suffering too..why do e do that making life difficult for everyone…more you expect, more you make it difficult for others and get off the burden of that ….stop holding others responsible for feelings inside you and dont take the burden of others on your shoulders…you dont have to bear the burden of entire world on your delicate shoulders..