Claudia Chan

I'd like to ask you this question, because it took me a lot of work to have fun without feeling guilty.

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I was brought up in a household that everything was immaculate, spotless, cleaned, everything had its place, meals were prepped.

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And everything “needs” to be done first before you can relax.

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I grew up the rebel, who didn’t really care much about any of that while I was living at home, and obviously I was nagged non-stop.

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After I got married, part of me still carry that belief, that I need to do more to take care of things.

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So when I decided to play video games over the Christmas holidays, (and I played heavily), the guilt set in.

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I had thoughts like,

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“I should be doing more things, for my business, for the family.” Or,

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“I wasted all this time on this game.”

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It took me a long time to work through detaching myself from this guilt.

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To the point where, now when I planned to play, or decide to play, I don’t feel guilty anymore.

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And it is so ingrained in my belief, that I wanted to share this with you.

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Because it is something that I’m sure we all have.

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As a society that is constantly “doing” things, it seems like we always think there is a more “productive” way to do things.

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Clean the house while listening to a podcast.

Or watch tv while exercising.

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Otherwise it would be a waste of time.

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Or we have this mentality where we think, omg, I just wasted all this time binge watching the entire season of this show.

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So they are like 2 extremes of guilt.

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What if just doing something fun is ok for once?

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And we don’t feel guilty about it?

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How would that feel like for you?

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So today, I'd like to seriously grant you this approval. You are ALLOWED to have fun WITHOUT feeling guilty!

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Go and have fun!!! Just for yourself 🙂