An Open Letter to My Guilty Conscience

I don’t believe anyone deserves anything, good or bad. We’re simply dealt cards in a game we didn’t ask to play with rules that are unclear.

Dear GC,

Every town USA sent me a survey to gauge my feelings about the despicable NRA. I knew that any reply whatsoever would place me in a data bank of valuable prospects, open to ever more intense hounding for time and money.

I threw it out. But not without terrible qualms, hence this missive.

Despite being raised in a pre-Vatican II Sicilian-American family, and living most of my adult life in the liberal bastions of the Ivory Tower, which produce guilt by the METRIC tonne (why can’t we be more like the good parts of Europe, I ask you?) I don’t believe in guilt, and therefore I don’t believe in you.

I would like to remind you that while I firmly believe the following:

Yes even as much as I believe in all these, I believe even more firmly that acting out of guilt never did much good in the long run.

My aim is make myself happy, treat my friends and family well, and try not to make things around me worse. I want to do this without guilt and its attendants, resentment and self-righteousness.

So back off, I don’t need the aggravation. I threw out that damn, but worthwhile and really necessary, survey and that’s that. I forgive myself and I’m moving on. When I can do something with an open heart, I will. That’s all I’ll promise. The world is pretty messed up, but there’s nice things, too. I suggest you focus on those more.

I remain,

Pamela Monk

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