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oyster  ·  2898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 11, 2016

When you own your actions you decide how you feel about them. Own your actions, realize guilt won't get you any farther and will only drag you down, learn from mistakes, apologize to those who deserve it, and move forward guilt free.

It's like realizing being angry at traffic won't make things move any faster, it will just ruin your day. Feeling guilty won't change what happened, it will just keep you from growing. The situation remains but the useless negative emotional state is replaced with something positive.