How well do you manage to place guilt trips on others? My children tell me that I am the queen of guilt. If I have turned out only half as talented as my mother was I will know I am good. Remembering that look on my mother’s stern face that said, “Haven’t I taught you better?” has probably saved me from making bad choices on more than one occasion.
I recently read a strange sentence about guilt. It was: “…guilt, in a way, is God’s gift to us.” This thought had never occurred to me before. Until that moment I had only thought of guilt as a burden in our lives that plagued us with this thing called conscience.
Mom and sisters, of course. :)
ReplyDeleteGuilt makes me feel bad so it is hard to blame it on God. I can't blame it on my mother or sisters. They always told me I was great.
ReplyDeleteIt's my kids that make me feel guilty. I look back and think that, with them, I should have done a lot of things differently.......though I do tell myself that I did the best I knew how at the time.........but then I'm not really sure that is true.
My mother and partner pile the guilt on with a trowel. Sometimes I think it is good in the sense that if we didn't feel any guilt we'd never rectify our wrong doings. Or try to anyway.
ReplyDeleteMoms have a real knaack in the guilt department.
ReplyDeleteI am the best provider of my guilty feelings. I eat myself up all the time.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who can make me feel guilty, but my relatives never do.
I generally heap more guilt on myself than anyone else has to. I know when I have behaved badly or done something wrong.
ReplyDeleteGuilt is a completely useless emotion, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, no one gives me guilt trips except me. I am trying not to, of course.
At church they taught us guilt was our conscience. If we feel it, we have a conscience, if not we're going to live in the fiery pits of HELL!! (No, they didn't say it quite like that but we all know what they meant.) :)
ReplyDeletePS - I know that look you're talking about. My mother STILL gives it to me! lol