Guilt - The Gift That Keeps on Giving

The meaning of guilt..."Remorseful awareness of having done something wrong."
What chance do I have on the GUILT SCORE CARD, if there is such a thing?

I'M A CATHOLIC.  A lot of rules, taught by the good nuns and priests...I'm grateful every day that faith played such a big role in my upbringing but.....   In high school, I was a fan of hiking the old uniform skirt up, as a lot of the girls were.  We'd wear them that way until we got caught.  Then as soon as the good Sister was out of sight, up they went again.   And make-up?  Somedays, I went to school looking like a clown and on my worst days, like "the happy hooker". I was aware that I was doing something wrong... But remorseful?  Only when I look at my old high school photos NOW!

I'M A MOM. Did I feed them the right stuff when they were young?   (What was wrong with sugared cereals and chocolate whole milk back then?) Should I have checked on what they were doing more?  (To this day, when we're all together, I learn more and more of things I was clueless about.  Parties when we were gone?  Not MY boys!  Naive Woman!)  Should I have worked harder with them on that Math homework?  (I'm not that strong in Math and it's genetic, isn't it?). Guilt comes with the Mom territory, doesn't it?

I'M A DAUGHTER. When I was sneaking around during my high school years, were my folks really that blind?  Or just very tolerant?)   Should I have paid more attention to their advice?  ("Pay yourself first, in savings... then you can spend." Or "Gossip and mean words are like cutting open a feather pillow in the wind.  You can never get all the feathers back"). Did some of the dumb stuff I did back then disappoint my parents more than they let on? (There was a stage in which I was pretty good in that area.)

Yep, I'd say there's plenty of guilt for this old girl.  But as I mentioned before, I'm a Catholic and we have such a thing as "Confession"... Think I should be heading there, right about now, heh?