Debt and responsibility

There may be an end to debt, but no end to responsibility. 

There are some people to whom we feel indebted for some good done to us. Some of these debts are so profound that we feel they can never be fully repaid - like to our parents, our guru etc. Others are mentally "paid off" if we do some service in return. 

Responsibility is a feeling from within, which will be there even if we have not received any material help from them that can be accounted - like to our children, our aged parents, spouse, close relatives, best friend etc. It is more a matter of feeling, as if we have invested a bit of our own self in that person, and in taking care of them, we take care of our sense of well-being as well.