The shame engine is out to get you
I’ve never felt proud of not “showing up,” and I doubt you have either. You create regret. Regret is a “shame engine,” an act that generates shame. The thing about a shame engine is that while it feels like a terrible burden, secretly you love it.
It completes a narrative.
The thing is, there is no story to end.
The result of shame isn’t us “acting better,” it is us acting worse. There is nothing good that comes of it.
Since we are shameful, anyone else that hangs around us must be a disgrace as well. As a result, shame just damages all of our relationships.
Don’t succumb to making a shame engine; destroying our relationships is a form of hiding.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 