Lately, I feel guilty that when I was a kid, I thought about hurting this little kid that lived a few doors down from me. I was only about 10 at the time, and never would have acted on it, but how screwed up is is that I still feel guilty about it 17 years later?
2006-12-14 16:18:21 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Completely understandable. When I was little, about six or so, I was jealous of my baby brother because he got all the attention. I was kind of mean to him. I still feel bad about it. Another thing I still feel guilty about was killing a toad. I don't know why I did it, but I feel bad about it now. I felt bad about it afterwards, but when I did it, it was kind of a game and I didn't realize what I was putting the poor animal through. In any event, I think it's normal. As we grow as people, we see the error of things in the past.
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2006-12-14 16:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by seventhyearfalling 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure, as an adult, there were things I did that I regret, but the reality is that I was a child, and didn't know at the time that what I was doing was wrong. I realize that may sound like a cop out, but it is true, and there is no point in beating yourself up about it 17 years later, as you can't go back in time to change the things you did. What is important is that you are cognisant of what you did wrong, and that you aren't like that now.
2006-12-14 16:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by Crowfeather 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure its human nature, its the way we learn when we do something wrong.I'm sure there is more good that you have done since then, there is the rest of your life to do better now, teach the young not to hate and the world will be a better place to live just think maybe in another 100 years you might have helped change the way the world is.
2006-12-14 16:36:03 · answer #3 · answered by bri n 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone feel gulity once in a while about something they did in there past. I would try hard not to think hard about the situation. I have had the same problem lately. I just keep reminding myself that I was young and didn't know any better at the time. Forgive yourself and move forward. Don't continue to feel bad about your past. Everyone has a past. You should gain strength from this in order to shape your future. Take Care of yourself.
2006-12-14 16:23:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
(I'm only 13, so I'm sort of still a kid, but...)
When I was about seven or eight my dad wrote me little notes and put them in my lunch box: stuff like "Do your best, sweetie!" and "I love you, Cayleen!"
Every once in a while I bought my lunch at school, and my mom packed me a lunch one day with a check for $5 in it for if I ever needed to buy. (Since checks aren't valid for 24 hrs. at my school, I still needed the lunch.)
I threw out the check accidentally, thinking it was one of my dad's notes that I don't usually read anyway.
But when my mom asked me (with my dad standing next to her) why I hadn't cashed the check I confessed I threw it out, thinking it was a note. My dad looked heartbroken, and never wrote me another note again. I still feel terrible about it 6 years later. I don't think it'll ever go away.
2006-12-14 16:24:22 · answer #5 · answered by Cayleen O 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you probably did not BETRAY YOUR pal. keep in mind that. She did drugs and is an alcoholic and hangs round sexual predators who threaten her little ones. You kept those youthful ones. they could are starting to be addicts, been raped, or be killed. you probably did the right element. those youthful ones were in severe risk and also you helped them. i comprehend it truly is probable demanding on your pal and also you, yet purely imagine what would take position in the adventure that they stayed round those adult males and a mom who does meth. keep in concepts, what you probably did probable secure those youthful ones' lives. If there's a lady about to get stabbed by her boyfriend and also you handle her boyfriend, you shouldn't sense undesirable for tackling the boyfriend - you purely kept the lady's existence. it truly is the way you need to sense now. the in problem-free words element you harm replaced into probable your pal's emotions, yet she is an addict and an alcoholic. She needs to get help, because little ones can't be raised in that area. What you probably did replaced right into a good element, and that i'm happy you probably did it.
2016-11-26 20:29:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your feelings for wrong deed is a punishment. Any guilt in innoscent age is not the matter of feelings but your age of doing some thing wrong was not of a kid.
2006-12-14 16:31:21 · answer #7 · answered by thinkpose 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What actually hurts me is that I shouldn't have felt guilty about things I did (minor mistakes) and adults sometimes blew my errors out of proportion. Let it go!
2006-12-14 16:27:03 · answer #8 · answered by Professor Maddie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, if you confess that sin to God, you'll be forgiven. If He forgives you, how simple would it be for you to forgive yourself? There are lots of things i regret doing when i was a kid, and an adult. We gotta give it up, and tell God we are sorry, and to refrain from doing it again, and all will be great!
i believe unrepentant sin keeps us in a heap of trouble. Then, when we start repenting of those sins, asking God for forgiveness, then we start having prayers answered.
2006-12-14 16:24:23 · answer #9 · answered by snafu1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom put my name on a piece of tape and labeled my lunch box. I pulled it off at lunch one day. I still feel guilty about it. It's been....30 years.
2006-12-14 16:20:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋