A Guilt Free Life

One thing we can all be assured of is that everyone who is alive gets one life.

I am of the belief that the one life should be enjoyed.

Guilt hinders enjoyment.

Why people want to take what little time they have to feel guilty about doing things common sense says are okay to do is beyond me. Especially when the entity that gave you the urge to do something is the entity you believe is harshly judging you for doing whatever it is that they gave you the urge to do.

If you're not harming anyone, don't feel bad about an action.

Don't feel guilty about waking up with a hangover on Sunday morning. Sure, your body is a temple, but what good is having a temple if you can't throw a party every once in a while?

Don't feel guilty about watching an x-rated internet video clip because you were curious to see the only footage in existence of a little person fornicating with an animal on the endangered species list. And don't feel bad because you enjoyed it. If you were alone, that clip, as well as thousands containing equal depravity, wouldn't be on the internet. Hell, the internet may not even exist if it weren't for people like you enjoying clips like that.

Don't feel guilty for hating everyone. Everyone is an idiot. You're very concerned with doing your job well, but no one else seems to take pride in their work. That's why you get the wrong meal at restaurants. That's why your Maxim magazine didn't come this week. That's why you have to sit in the waiting room at the barbershop for over an hour. If the waiter, mailman, etc. did their job as well as you do your job, you would never be inconvenienced. If everyone did their job as well as you do your job, the world would be a happy place. So hate them all and feel good about it.

Isn't it enough to only feel guilty about the times in which you disappoint yourself? If you're trying to lose weight, you feel guilty enough for sneaking into the kitchen to devour your fourth glazed donut of the morning. You don't need extra guilt that results from doing things you otherwise wouldn't feel bad about having done, had the book your parents forced you to read not frowned up it.

You always hear Christians say that God gives them freewill. Then why doesn't He say, "I give you the right to decide for yourself what is right and what is wrong!"

After all, wouldn't that be a better indicator of someone's true nature? If someone says, "I decided that randomly beating up people is right and giving money to help mentally challenged children is wrong," then God would know He's dealing with a bad human being.

And don't tell me, "Without God telling us, nobody would know that savagely beating up another person is wrong!" Because I think the victim writhing around on the ground crying, "I'm in pain!" would be a dead giveaway. After all, most people have experienced pain and know that it's not a good thing - with the rare exception being people who suffer from that disease that causes them to never experience pain.

So, if no one is suffering as a result of your action, feel good about it. Or just stop reading the book that instructs you to feel guilty about doing things no person should feel guilty about doing. Of course, that's provided that you don't feel guilty about not reading the Bible, because if you feel guilty about not reading the Bible, it would make not reading the Bible a complete waist of your time.

Now I know why ministers have to go to seminary for so long, this religion stuff is confusing.