Tag: guilt

• The Town I hate to love

  Ever since my metaphoric disposal of a generic holiday town, I have to confess I have been beset with guilt. Did I succumb to the trap of judging without sufficient knowledge; judging without hearing the rebuttal; being trapped in a net of my own making? I suspect I may have been guilty of that not…

  gozzter

  December 19, 2024

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  adjectives, descriptives, guilt, inspiration, nouns

• Flutterbys

  Perhaps we live our lives in parts, segments that seem distinct only in retrospect. But now that I consist of gnarled limbs and painted, fragile leaves already heavy with the luxury of years, I am allowed think of butterflies as ephemeral markers, unlikely bookmarks in my life. I’m not really sure when this idea took…

  gozzter

  July 17, 2024

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  art, butterflies, guilt, Nature

• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

  I sometimes wonder what forgiveness actually means. But when I acknowledge my uncertainty, it sounds rather insensitive -stupid, almost. Forgiveness suggests -what?- indulgence, tolerance of a perceived or actual transgression. Leniency if not absolution. Often it also suggests, or expects, some sort of reciprocal reaction from the object of the largesse as well. It can…

  gozzter

  January 12, 2022

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  apologies, BBC Future series, cognitive dissonance, collectivistic cultures, decisional forgiveness, emotional forgiveness, forgiveness, guilt, Mark Twain, REACH intervention, social harmony, virtue signalling, William Park

• Infirm of Purpose

  Conscience is a difficult master, and although few would argue the need for one, I suspect that most would agree that at times it may be hard to obey. As my mother used to say, it’s why guilt was invented. Society seems to assign great worth to those of us who are able to resist…

  gozzter

  May 8, 2019

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  Aztecs, character-centred virtues, communal resources, conscience, dogs, guilt, philosophy, Sebastian Purcell, socially-centred virtues, SUNY-Cortland in New York, temptations, virtue ethics

• Time Enough

  Time, the faceless tyrant that rules our lives like an absentee landlord, is so abstract, so opaque, it is difficult to grasp. It is seeing through a glass, darkly if at all. Enslaving everything within its reach it is an impartial despot. Dispassionate in its all-embracing realm, we are each of us imprisoned and there is…

  gozzter

  July 22, 2015

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  guilt, Hawthorne, menstrual calendars, older patients, postmenopausal bleeding, Rabindranath Tagore, referring physician, slave of time, Time, time perception