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An Open Letter To Guilt

This emotion visits all of us once in a while, but what happens when it stays too long?

Anita Kotowicz
Feb 01, 2016
University of New Hampshire
1078
An Open Letter To Guilt
Success Praxis

Dear Guilt,

These past few weeks have been wonderful with you. I cherish every moment that the two of us spend together. However, things have to change. You've really over stayed your welcome and it's rude and annoying. I get why you're here,but I want you to leave. Pretty please with a cherry on top.

At the beginning of your stay, I thought that your presence in my life was rightly justified, yet I failed to realize that my judgment was clouded by you.I don't deserve to feel this way, yet you made me think I do and ultimately manipulated me into taking you in. I apologized, yet to you Guilt, that wasn't enough. You wanted me to suffer, worry and live my days out withconstant anxiety.

Sometimes, your stay is necessary and I am deserving of it, but not this time. It seems as though every time you come to visit me,you over stay your welcome. And you know what? That is really rude of you. You make me feel like there is a dark cloud above my head, going to relinquish an ocean of rainfall at any minute. You seem to have programed my mind into thinking that every time someone around me smiles, it is like they are shooting an arrow straight into my heart, as a reminder that I do not deserve to feel happy.

You're wrong. You're cruel. You're disgusting.

Stop making me feel terrible for not keeping you around while at the same time please stop over staying your welcome.

I appreciate our relationship and how you can keep me from doing things to hurt other people but I don't appreciate how you brainwash me into thinking I did. I am a good, kindhearted person and it is time you realized that too.

Thank you for understanding.

Until next time,

Anita

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