Let’s banish guilt. Far too often, I turn myself in knots trying to quell my feelings of guilt over not doing something quickly enough or frugally enough or environmentally-friendly enough or creatively enough. Why do I torture myself? There’s always room for improvement in every endeavor in life–I know this–and guilt only serves to steal my time.
Our society loves to tell us what we should be doing and how we should be living. Some of these prescriptions are useful (for example, not stealing is a sage directive to follow) but more often than not, these “shoulds” are prescriptions that worked for someone else, but very well might not work for us. So why get caught up in them?
I used to immediately question myself and experience guilt anytime I broke from the conventional course and didn’t hew to society’s standards. If I didn’t dress like everyone else, that was a failure.
Our society loves to tell us what we should be doing and how we should be living. Some of these prescriptions are useful (for example, not stealing is a sage directive to follow) but more often than not, these “shoulds” are prescriptions that worked for someone else, but very well might not work for us. So why get caught up in them?
I used to immediately question myself and experience guilt anytime I broke from the conventional course and didn’t hew to society’s standards. If I didn’t dress like everyone else, that was a failure.
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