“I have committed the worst sin a man can commit. I wasn’t happy. May the glaciers of oblivion drag me and lose me, mercilessly. “Thus begins the poem entitled “O Remorso”, written by Jorge Luis Borges. In these early verses, you can see the feeling of repentance that arises in a person when he knows he has done something that is not right.
In this sense, the writer regrets losing happiness, in our daily activities we perform daily actions that generate pain and discomfort, there are other kinds of regrets, such as minor concerns that simply remind us that we have done wrong and that are contrary to our principles, if we follow a diet and eat sweets, a feeling of guilt invades us by adding calories that we should not have eaten.
- Remorse is a feeling very associated with another emotion.
- Repentance.
- We all make mistakes and repent.
- But are there times when?Does it become such a heavy emotional burden that it can negatively affect our personal well-being or our relationship with our environment?.
But there are authors, like Wayne Dyer, who describe guilt as an unnecessary emotion. Dyer emphasizes this position on the idea that “guilt means you despise your present moments, being immobilized by past behaviors. “For this reason, he proposes to make guilt a lesson, to learn from our past failures so as not to be immobilized by them, but to choose to solve this situation that generates some discomfort.
The repair of these negative thoughts will depend on several circumstances, not all actions have the same consequences, since some cause more harm than others, but it is always possible to ask forgiveness and mitigate this damage, it is important to take responsibility for what has been done, because it will always be better to accept the mistake than to blame others for getting rid of those responsibilities.
However, some people have the ability to be cleaned with soap and water. We all remember the scene of Pilate, who after making a contradictory decision, went to a sink to wash his hands. According to a study by a group of researchers at the University of Michigan in the United States, it can help eliminate remorse. Apparently, as the study shows, soapy water serves to reduce the discomfort we feel when acting against what we think.