Guilt
To me, guilt is an awful feeling that spirals out of control, as it lays in the pit of your stomach and never leaves. Constantly, making it apparent that it’s there at every corner as if a demonic spirit is haunting you. It’s something you cannot escape from, as it leaches onto you and extracts the life out of you. Over time the guilt starts to evolve and grows bigger and bigger. Every thought, every move and everything reminding you of it, until it consumes your life. Much like in the novel Fifth Business, Dunstan let the guilt of dodging the snowball consume his life. This caused him to have a life long involvement with the Dumpsters. For myself, I experienced guilt when I exposed a secret of my best friend. As a result, this came with multiple consequences that has shaped me into the person I am today.
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It was about a very embarrassing thing that had happened to her over the weekend. She explained to me that if anyone found out, she would die from the embarrassment. She made me promise to never tell a living soul about it. I accepted the promise and swore I wouldn’t tell anyone because she was my best friend and I knew how much this meant to her. Unfortunately, a month later, I broke her promise. I was hanging out with my other friends, when suddenly, she was brought up in conversation. In that moment, I totally forgot that I was supposed to keep my mouth shut about her secret and got carried away in the conversation. I ended up accidentally sharing her private information. My hearted dropped and I immediately felt the guilt