Why is guilt so difficult to shake? I feel regretful to this day about a poor decision I made as a boy, says Adrian Chiles
Why is guilt so difficult to shake? I feel regretful to this day about a poor decision I made as a boyow long must guilt last? When I was a boy, aged about 10, I had a football that I kicked around for years, with my mates, with my brother or all on my own, dribbling aimlessly about or booting it against a wall. This ball conferred upon me some status, for it was what we used to call a caser, which is not a word I’ve used for a good 40 years.
By then, I wanted a new one, a shiny new ball, probably the Tango that Adidas made for the 1978 World Cup, which had, intoxicatingly, 12 fewer panels. But my mum said no. She said that my ball was perfectly OK, and I could only hope for a new one when it was unusable. She had a point. My caser, though a deeply uninteresting uniform brown, was still round enough and hard enough for football purposes.
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