Don’t be layin’ no guilt trip on me.  It won’t work.  I learned about guilt a long time ago and just decided it was pointless.

You could even call it a cop out.  Some people spend their lives feeling guilty.  It’s the stuff of novels.  It’s often the tragic flaw.  And that’s just what it is – a flaw, a flaw in our thinking.

Pardon me while I pontificate, but this stuff is simply a waste of our time and energies.  If ya’ think about it, guilt is just something we humans put between us and the real problem so that we don’t have to face the real problem.

Let’s say you do something wrong and hurt somebody’s feelings.  We all run around with guilt and it drives us crazy and makes us carry the weight around like a lead backpack.  Moving forward, why don’t we just go to the person and in whatever way possible heal the original fault?  Then we don’t have to sit around feeling guilty.  Obliterate the cause; this eliminates the effect.

Guilt is just something we do so that we don’t have to deal with the original fault.  I call it a ‘cop out’ because it’s really just us ignoring what we should be doing to heal the issue and, instead, running around feeling bad about what we’ve done to cause the problem in the first place.  Most of the time the guilt becomes worse than the problem itself.

Now I’m not saying I never feel guilty.  I think guilt has its small place in our lives, but it should only be momentary, like a reminder.  If we’re in charge of our lives, when the guilt first rises, we should see it for what it is and immediately act upon it by fixing the cause.  If we can effectively do this, then we don’t have to run around feeling guilty.  It’s what I try to do in my life.  I’m not always successful, but I’ve dealt with it so long this way that it no longer takes very long for the red flag to wave or the little birdie to start squawkin’ in my ear.  “Hey Pete, you’re feeling guilty.  Duh.”

I don’t like the feeling of guilt.  It’s yucky.  It has no place in my life except as a one-time reminder.  If I have to be reminded over and over, then I’m not doing my job as a human and deserve what I get – guilt.

That’s all I got to say about it.  Otherwise, it’s a waste of my time.