Define

Shame:
1 : a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety
2 : a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.

For me, there is no stronger feeling than shame. Anger can quickly fade. Happiness is fleeting. Loneliness is fixable. Sadness is relative. But shame can stick around a whole lifetime. It can motivate us to stay stagnate or it can motivate us to change. Have you ever felt shame so strong you wanted to end things. That it would be better to end it if only to be relieved of that awful feeling that tightens your everything inside. Or how about when you feel that you must do something to fix it. What if it is unfixable. What if it has been so long or so deep that you cannot regain the dignity you have lost because of what you have done. What if it is not your shame alone. I have seen and felt others shame and it hurts almost as much as if it were my own. I would take it sometimes to save the other. But I can't and no one can take mine.