Confession (May 19)

As the sports world continues to deal with the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, there is a unique phenomenon revealing itself. It is the desire to confess the truth after hiding it for a long time. No one likes to be wrong. It makes perfect sense why someone would want to hide what they have done for the simple reason that everything you have done comes into question. The reality is that it eats away at who you are to continuously tell a lie. The longer that you hold the truth inside and tell lies on the outside the more it will eat away at you and the more the sense of growing guilt will become. To finally tell the truth, either to someone close to you or to the entire world, allows one to finally release and move past the wrong that they have done. In a sense, the whole idea of confession should remind one of confession in the catholic church. You may not agree with the catholic church in general but the reality is their concept of confession is a very valuable one. Perhaps it is something that we should take more seriously and perhaps confession is something that we should learn to do as quickly as possible. Ones life will be much greater and experience a lack of guilt if one is allowed to confess. It is also highly likely that if one were to know that they will have to confess they will be less likely to do anything that they would then need to confess later. The habit of confession is good and could make the world a better place.