Eat it - if you want. Just today, we forget all that is bad conscience

Every day, lots of people walk around with a bad conscience for different things. It can be the career woman at the crosswalk, the young man on the tram, bus or subway, the mother of three next to you in the traffic jam, the nicest colleague at work or a local gang member. The source of their guilty conscience varies but may include them not exercising enough, that they haven’t cleaned in a long time, that they give their children fast food too often, they don’t have time to listen to or hang out with friends and family as much as they feel they should, that they haven’t studied enough for tomorrow's exam or that they’ve forgotten to call someone they had promised to. Usually the bad conscience doesn’t help you or anyone else at all. Quite the contrary, the bad conscience only infects its subject with unhappiness.

Therefore, I think it is time we choose one day when we simply ignore all that is bad conscience, and refuse to agree to let the bad things we did or did not do get to us. Why not today?

Let today be the day when it is okay to do things you maybe shouldn’t, but want or have to do anyway. Don’t, for example, go out running even though it’s raining, stay in and snuggle-up instead. Or go out for a good run or brisk walk if you feel like it, even if you don’t think you can. Take that cake that you’d really like to eat but think you shouldn’t, stay in the bathtub for a while longer, despite the fact that your partner or family is nagging you to come out. Let meeting up with your friends take whatever time it takes. Eat fast food if you want to, even if you’ve had it five days in a row and really think it is time to prepare a meal at home. Put off all the musts, demands and, above all, the bad conscience (if you really need it) for tomorrow and realize that you are great anyway.

Whatever you choose to do today, do it because you want to, not because you should or must.