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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 415380" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>From the outside, situations look neat and simple. From the inside, they almost never are, though. Everyone has their story, that is what I know... and stories have their own power and reality. I do not think the feeling of guilt is amenable to logic... the trouble is we take it personally, think it is "wrong" to feel guilty about anything as if that implies we are bad people - yet good people can do mistaken things, harmful things, out of ignorance, fear, whatever. I think the point is to redeem whatever it is one feels one has done wrong by addressing the present in the best way possible. There is a scene in a film that I like a lot (American!), "Magnolia", in which character is dying, filled with remorse for having repeatedly cheated on a wife he had loved. He cries out "People say you mustn't feel guilt. You feel guilt about any damned thing you want - and use it. Use it." </p><p>Sometimes I feel our psychologising society obscures deeper human wisdom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 415380, member: 11227"] From the outside, situations look neat and simple. From the inside, they almost never are, though. Everyone has their story, that is what I know... and stories have their own power and reality. I do not think the feeling of guilt is amenable to logic... the trouble is we take it personally, think it is "wrong" to feel guilty about anything as if that implies we are bad people - yet good people can do mistaken things, harmful things, out of ignorance, fear, whatever. I think the point is to redeem whatever it is one feels one has done wrong by addressing the present in the best way possible. There is a scene in a film that I like a lot (American!), "Magnolia", in which character is dying, filled with remorse for having repeatedly cheated on a wife he had loved. He cries out "People say you mustn't feel guilt. You feel guilt about any damned thing you want - and use it. Use it." Sometimes I feel our psychologising society obscures deeper human wisdom. [/QUOTE]
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