- Date posted
- 1y
The guilt is eating me alive...
Earlier today I was in my last class for the day and usually as I stand up from my chair, I look at it to see if I wasn’t seated on a cat (bear with me), this time, I forgot to do it right away so it took me a second to realise and look at my chair which had no cats on it, this of course wasn’t enough for my brain which told me the cat I was sitting on for the past 2 hours had jumped of the chair as soon as I stood up and I missed it, I went in front of the classroom and looked every corner to see if a hurt cat was there but everyone was just packing their stuff up blocking sole of the view and I had a bus coming in 5 minutes, I tried to rationalize the fact I would have felt or heard it if I sat on a cat or my friends next to me would have seen it or any other classmate once it would have jumped of my seat, not to mention the amount of checking around my butt for two hours I probably do in this kind of situation to see if I’m not seated directly on the chair but I forgot if I had done it this class or not. But to no avail, I couldn’t really convince myself there was no cat to begin with, I forced myself to walk to the bus stop but I felt guilty and I compelled to go back and check if I could find a hurt cat, especially since I could just take the next bus in 20 minutes anyways but I ended up taking the bus without going back to check, queue me being even more guilty and now I can’t this out of my head. Then again, if I did hurt a cat seating on it, I wouldn’t have had the needs to pay for a vet nor would it had let me pet it to comfort it so it doesn’t really matter if I had stayed I think, so I don’t know, I feel super bad right now...