Bad peolpe don't feel guilty, they are too busy being bad. Good people feel guilty because they are good and they feel they have done wrong, let somebody down, made a mistake or screwed up somewhere. Good people have conscience.Bad people don'yt.If you do feel guilty thats a good sign. It shows that you are on the right track. But you have to know how to deal with it, because guilt is terribly selfish emotion. It is wasteful and pointless.
We have 2 choices: put it right or dump the guilt. Yes, we all make mistakes. We all screw up from time to time. We don't always do the right thing. And if we got conscience, we will feel guilty sometimes but guilt is utterly pointless unless it is acted on for the better. you would be better off feeling something else, if you are not going to act on your guilt. If you hang around feeling guilty but don't do anything about it, then its a waste of time and life.
If you do have cause to feel guilty, then if you can, put it right. That's the simplest course of action. And what if you can't put things right? Then learn the lesson, make a resolution, dump the guilt and move on. If it keeps on gnawing away at you, you have to find away to put it behind you.
- Richard Templar according to his book " THE RULES OF LIFE
