We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.