Shameful Shame

Shame seems to be one of the most common emotions people experience within this society. It seems that we are being forever being made to feel shame for the things we do by some omnipresent but unknown being or beings that can even affect us when we are alone. So many actions condemned without anything outright ever being said. A plethora of social laws nobody has ever written but exist in the air in the form of whispers. We must feel shame, shame for everything. Shame for having sex, shame for not having it, shame for being shy, shame for being too loud, shame for merely enjoying ourselves. This almost unnatural yet instinctive reaction to our own actions fuelled by the damnation we cast upon others for doing whatever they are doing even if it’s the same as us. But why should we be ashamed of the things we do? Sure there may be occasions where we should rightly feel shame for the wrongs that we have done but why must we feel this emotion for the experience of life and why should we cast it upon others. When did life become so controlled by how we think others think about us, at what point did we become so concerned with the actions of others. There are many places to point the blame, religion, media, education, society any given person is to blame in their own right. But what can we do about it? We can choose to not judge, to see something and ignore it, maybe even give it a try. And when we do something we can tell shame to go fuck itself. We should feel free to shout proudly the things we do. This is life and we are living it, there is no reason to feel shame for that.