The Guilt of Leaving

“If you go far enough into yourself, you find everybody” – Rob Bell

Is guilt a gift? A (painful) chance to question our control; to ask if we need to change, stay or leave. In episode 231, “An Anatomy of Restlessness”, Rob Bell starts his podcast discussing how guilt accompanies regret, the feeling of moving on and wanting more.

So the relationship with a person, place or thing shifted. Maybe guilt is the emotional alarm that we are living for external opinions instead of acknowledging what’s happening right now. That our lives require distance, proximity, uprooting, rearranging, unraveling or change so great that it feels like demolition.