Guilt

Guilty conscience. There seems to be no end to it and we’re all too prone to self inflicting it upon ourselves as it if it’s more noble to do so. Now, I’m not talking about feelings of guilt that comes from murdering someone or “doing someone in”. Rather, just your regular everyday feelings of guilt, of having felt inadequate or fear of having “let someone down”.

Yes, it is somewhat more comforting to ourselves to say that we’re wrong and that we deserve all the blame and then allow ourselves to wallow in grief than it is to fight your own system, mind and emotions.

Sometimes we go into a mode of lessening one end to sort of “make up” as if it makes up for the guilt. We start to destroy or avoid lending support to something good just so that we might not feel too guilty about having screwed up the other end.

But hey, two wrongs do not make a right.

What is right, let it ride and work on doing the right thing to heal the wrong. And as for guilt, perhaps we should all learn to put its perspective in the right place and not just have a blanket cover for everything else. Isolate what’s damaged and work on it.

And no, it is not any more nobler to succumb to feelings of guilt and thereby to wallow in it. It is just more cowardly an act. So, it’s time to give ourselves a good kick in the behind and move on.