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Is it OK to Feel Happy Anymore?
If we keep this up, we’ll feel guilty for being alive
I want to talk to you about this thing we do.
We all do it. I’ve been doing it a lot lately, and I think over the last few years it’s had an impact on how I approach life.
The way we feel guilty about feeling happy because there are shitty things happening to people in our lives. We’re bragging and that’s why we feel guilty.
We have guilt for feeling happy. We feel guilty because something good happened in our lives and in that exact moment, something negative is happening in the lives of many people we love.
A few months ago, a good friend called to tell me something, but she didn’t want to upset me.
I knew what the news was. I knew exactly why she called.
“He proposed?” I asked, a huge smile on my face.
She thought the news might upset me because she’d been my go-to support when my last relationship ended and my ear for all my current relationship misadventures.
I was glad she called. I was flattered she called because, in this day and age, there’s only a handful of people we call to tell individually before announcing to the world we’re engaged with a Facebook status update or an Instagram post…
