Do You Feel Guilty?
Here’s a question for you, “Do you feel guilty?”
This is a multilevel question that, I believe, you really should think about.
Here’s a few of the levels that may help to guide you in your answer to this question.
Do you feel guilty about a lie you told?
Do you feel guilty about the lies you have told?
Do you feel guilty about any pain you have caused someone else?
Do you feel guilty about that something that you damaged, or you broke, that belonged to someone else?
Do you feel guilty about taking money from someone who is unwillingly giving it to you like in the form of alimony or palimony?
Do you feel guilty about that something that you stole?
Do you feel guilty about that individual that you cheated?
Do you feel guilty about that something that you said about that someone else that damaged their life?
Do you feel guilty about physically or psychological hurting someone from your present or your past?
Do you feel guilty about the fact that you do not even feel guilty about not feeling guilty?
Of course, this list can go on and on. There are so many ways that you may have hurt or damaged the life of someone else.
This takes us to the root of this inquiry. Do you feel guilty about the negative things you have done or that you currently are doing?
If you do, what are you doing about it?
If you do not, what does that say about who and what you are?
In life, people make all kinds of excuses, particularly to themselves, about what they are doing and why they are doing it. It seems there is always a self-generated, self-provided piece of self-logic that a person hands to themselves giving them a reason for doing what they are doing, even though, deep down inside, they know what they are doing is wrong.
How about you? What have you done that you have justified to yourself was okay, while you were doing it, that at the depths of your being you knew was and is wrong?
Who have you tried to intentionally take from, hurt, and/or lie to?
Let’s take a look at the things that have happened to you in your life.
Have you been lied to?
Has someone caused you pain?
Has someone damaged or broken something that belonged to you?
Has someone taken money from you that you did not want to give them?
Has something been stolen from you?
Has someone physically or psychologically damaged you or your life?
Has someone done any of these things (or more) and not felt guilty about it?
If you look to the experiences of your own life, you can immediately understand the damage, pain, and sorrow that occurs when someone has done that something to you. Isn’t this amplified when they do not even care enough about what they done to try and fix the pain they have unleashed?
Knowing this, why would you ever knowingly do anything that would hurt the person or the life of that someone else? Knowing this, why would you ever do anything that hurts anyone? And, if you did, (accidentally or otherwise), do something that damaged the life of someone else, why wouldn’t your guilt cause you to try and fix it?
If you do not feel guilty for the negative things you have done, don’t you believe that you should really take the time to take a long hard look at yourself, stop justifying your actions, study who you truly are, on the deepest of level of your being, and try to repair what is broken?