“Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.”Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 18th century poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a tale of morality and a sailor’s accountability for his actions. Despite reading a decent amount of Shakespeare in high school and college and even taking a course in Medieval English Literature, I always found the poem to be something of a hard slog.But lately, after being caught out in a few torrential downpours, and reading some concerning articles about midwestern water tables, I've found myself thinking about the poem that temporarily derailed me from the Dean's List.What are your responsibilities as a person, a member of a family, friend group, community, city, state, or country? What are your job responsibilities? If you own a company what do you owe your community? Your employees? Customers? Stock holders?Life is complicated. There are a lot of things demanding our time, attention, energy.Here in the third decade of the 21st century, many Americans find that living up to their responsibilities to their families, communities and careers in the shadow of late stage capitalism and moribund public infrastructure is not simple. It often seems as though the whole concept of "responsibility to" and “accountability” is for “thee, not me.”Personally, I got some issues with that. In the 18th century, Coleridge's mariner couldn't escape his consequences for his actions.So if you’re planning on diving into anything this week, make sure the water is deep and there are no obstructions. Also: Never shoot the albatross. That’s just not cool.