Guilty as charged

"Guilty guts!' 'Guilty guts'
I woke with this playground taunt in my mind.
I'm not even sure of the context.
But I remember the words...
It bought right into another common phrase of my childhood.
'You ought to be ashamed of your self!'
And so many adults are ashamed of themselves,
ashamed of their needs,
ashamed of their wants,
ashamed of their pain.
Right now there are millions of us operating from low-level guilt.
It is so pervasive that we don't even know we are doing it.
Our guilt is compounded by the voices of 'Everybody' that Martha Beck describes so eloquently in her book Finding your own North Star.
You know ... the voices that say 'You CAN'T DO THAT' 
'You are a Mom, a Dad, a wife, a husband,
You have RESPONSIBILITIES!!!!!!'
'You have NO RIGHT to ... (fill in the blanks)
'You CANNOT ...
You MUST NOT ...
You SHOULD give up this mad notion!'
The only problem is that if you listen to EVERYBODY you know that something inside you will die and you will live your life in quiet desperation.
And this is not what Love would have you do.
Love would have you listen to your heart.
Love would have you undo the straitjacket and LIVE.
Love would have you Love your self.
And this is my hope for you today,
that you will Love your precious self.