I believe that of all the feelings /emotions one experiences, guilt is a very strong one and at the same time very disturbing.
Knowingly or unknowingly if you make a mistake or hurt someone, somewhere down in your heart you have that strong feeling of guilt. The feeling of guilt eats you up inside and doesnt let you be in peace, and all one cares is to ask for forgiveness. One doesnt care if the other person forgives you or not, but all you care for is to ask for it.
Recently I read in the papers, a man had committed some murder and the guilt within didnt let him sleep, he could get his peace of mind only once he admitted to his crime. The police on their part were surprised to someone so happy in the jail, they had never seen someone so happy and relaxed inside the prison cell, but I guess thats what the feeling of guilt does to you, it keeps eating you inside unless you seek for forgiveness.
However, I have also realised that at times it takes one days, months or even years to realise that one has made a mistake. You feel guilty only when you realise that you have made a mistake until then you are all too happy with yourself/your life.
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Again a quote from "Heart of the matter by Grahm Greene: "Pity and guilt smouldered like decay at his heart. He would never rid himself of it. He knew from experience how passion died away and how love went, but pity and guilt always stayed. Nothing ever diminished pity. The conditions of life nurtured it. There was only a single person in the world who was unpitiable, oneself."
Well said Diwakar !! btw, I didnt know this Graham folk !! he writes sad stories is all i can say !!
There is one cure for guilt, just ask for forgiveness, forgiving or not is upto the other person, but just spelling out your mistakes and asking for forgiveness rids you of the guilt !!
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