Tag: Guilt

Three reasons not calling home is important and empowering

Log of first Robin's song each winter in Florida
Robins fly south for the winter, heard the first Robin yesterday

 

Three reasons why not calling home Thanksgiving Day is one of the most important and empowering things for your self-esteem:

1. You realize when the phone doesn’t ring, it’s because no one called.

2. You realize that everyone in the world with a job is busy, especially on Thanksgiving Day.

3. You have an epiphany you wouldn’t have had if you had called.

The holiday epiphany reveals that each person is absolutely as capable and responsible to call as you.

And as a bonus, you understand that whatever your Family circumstances are, everyone may actually be okay with them.

Bottomline: when the phone doesn’t ring on either end, no one needs to feel guilt. Liberating discovery.

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A breakthrough in not feeling guilty for Mid Life Celebration

Apple website iPhone5s purchase completion message
Incredibly thankful for being able to afford a new iPhone5s

 

Incredibly thankful for being able to afford a new iPhone5s. Not only was there no guilt, but there was also a tiny bit of childhood Christmas eve giddiness about what the gift will do when it finally arrives.

Worth mentioning the drive home from the airport will be in a 1990 Toyota Camry?

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Ever feel guilty going out to dinner?

Google map of directions from Palace Cafe to cafe Du Monde
Palace Cafe and Cafe Du Monde are two highly popular New Orleans restaurants

 

Sometimes we see images of third world children on the brink of death from starvation.

It really impacts us emotionally. Our heart breaks for them and we wish it wasn’t so.

And not long afterwards, we have absolutely no thought of that whatsoever.

But occasionally we do. It’s an uncomfortable feeling.

Three blogs on balance so far, a quick jump over to our moneymaker (job), click here please.

 

Guilty Feeling

Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces

What makes humans feel guilt?

What makes you feel guilty?

Know what makes me feel guilty?

Goodness.

This week, my son and I have taken several sunset walks. We end up in our back yard. A really big back yard. The sun has set, and now it’s twilight.

“Son, look around. Do you see how much space is here in this yard, from one side to the other?”

He says, “Yes.”

“I’m not saying that other sized yards are better or worse. I’m just saying that Mommy and Daddy worked really, really hard to make this yard possible.”

For something like seven years, Cheryl and I spent, what seemed like a majority of our weekends looking for a big yard near Walt Disney World.

The first 15 years in Central Florida, I worked every weekend, and had either a Saturday or a Sunday off, but never both.

And on that lone weekend day off, we combed the area north of Disney, south of Disney, east of Disney, west of Disney.

The result? Nothing. Year after year. Nothing.

Until one day….