Yes! A lot of guilt over a long time here too. For example, I had long periods in my younger days of feeling terribly guilty about my relative good fortune to be born into an affluent country and to have things better than other people in the world. This is despite the fact I've always been on the poor end of this society since birth. But I've been painfully aware for a long time that the poorest of us in this society are still in the top 13% or so of the world's wealth. At one level, these things are valid observations of the social world. The inequality in the world is very troubling and is a real moral question. But being eaten by guilt over it doesn't help anyone and actually damages ourselves.

Compassion is a wonderful thing but it can go too far and swamp us so much that we lose ourselves in the process. We were born into this world, have a right to be here and we don't need to apologise to ourselves or anyone else about taking care of our own wellbeing. I guess, as with many things, it's finding a balance of compassion and self-care that seems to be the key. In our compassion, I think we need to remember too to have compassion for ourselves.