Responsbility vs Accountability

Been thinking about responsibility vs accountability.  How do you define and contrast between them?

Big project of life

Insya-Allah, God-willing, we'll embark upon a significant milestone this year.  It all started with a simple note on the whiteboard on the wall of my workplace's prayer room last year - a few weeks after Raya Haji.  It said "Can someone tell me how much does it cost to go for Hajj?". I didn't know who wrote that and I still don't.  Anyhow, a few days later, another message went on the board, "About GBP3000 brother.".  And true enough, a few days later a response to that.  "Thank you.  I'll to start saving now."  I assume the original questioner.

Those simple exchanges (they stopped after that BTW, in case you are wondering), for some reasons, left an indelilable mark on me....on my mind and maybe on my heart too.  While, I have always wanted to go for Hajj "one of these days," if I were to point to the specific decision-point, then this would be it.  Reading the statement "I'll start saving now!!!!". 

Whoever you are brother, may Allah bless you and please accept my gratitude for helping me making up my mind that I WANT TO GO THIS YEAR.  I don't really know why and what really happened.  I still think about it and I guess one of the rationale I had then was that, here is someone who wants to go and is now going to start saving so that he can make it.  And here I am, one who has enough fund to go, but for whatever reason that I don't even know, am not going and not planning to go anytime soon.  And here is someone who will start saving now and for all I know will get there long before I do.  I just couldn't reconcile that it my mind.  Especially if I have to justify not going 'yet'.

So there it was....a 'split-second' decision.  May Allah bless us and accept from all of us.