A Wasted Emotion!!

GUILT!!

Who doesn't feel that twinge of it every now and again? What Mom out there doesn't feel the tug of guilt as you move through her daily life? Do you eat something and feel guilty? Do you read a book and feel guilty because you should be doing something else? Do you take a nap maybe or get a massage and feel guilty? It's everywhere you look this silly emotion of guilt haunting us!

It's one of those emotions that I struggle with on a daily basis! It probably is the one thing that keeps me from meeting a lot of my goals. I probably spend more time worrying, and thinking about feeling guilty than any human should!

So what exactly do you do about it? There are people in this world who don't seem to let anything or anyone bother them? How does that happen? How do you let things roll off your shoulders and keep moving forward?

I think it's a matter or really analyzing the trigger for guilt and determining if it's even worth it? I feel like we as a species spend so much time wasted on feeling guilty when we could/should just be enjoying our life. So what if you eat a piece of candy? Is feeling guilty going to make you feel any better? NOPE!! Rather sit back and figure out why you ate it? Maybe you just felt like you should - well then rejoice in that candy!! Truly enjoy it and don't feel guilty about it!

We have to stop thinking so much about what society and others want us to do and rather what we want to do! What feels good for you and for your family. At the end of the day my father used to always tell me this, "If you can look yourself in the mirror then there is nothing to worry about"!!

I spend so much time out of life worrying about what others think and feel that it honestly destroys me. I feel guilty that I live in Florida while most of my family lives far away, I feel guilty that I haven't seen my best friend in almost a year and that we no longer talk on the phone for hours at a time, I feel guilty that at night I'm tired and have to go to sleep at 8:30 instead of spending time with my husband! I feel guilty that I'm not able to spread myself so thin I can make everyone happy!!! But like I said earlier - guilt is a terrible wasted emotion!!

I no longer want to feel guilty for things that are beyond my control. If you don't like it....too bad!! I have to live for myself and for my family and make the decisions that suit us!!! Life as I have said before is way too short and too precious to sit back and let such a silly emotion as guilt run it!

Here's to not letting guilt riddle our lives!!!

S.