3-Part Weekend Freewrite - 8/27/2022 - The guilty feeling

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3-Part Weekend Freewrite - 8/27/2022 hosted by mariannewest@mariannewest for freewritehouse@freewritehouse

(This is my first attempt for a 3-part weekend freewrite so kindle ignore the shortcomings)

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If the people in my congregation were sinless, there would be no need for them to come to church, I find myself angry at myself thinking that I was constantly surrounded by friends who were guilty of sin.

I would never have known that they would all go to church regularly to confess their sins if one day he himself had not seen one of his friends in the church's confession box.

Out of curiosity, I tried to ignore the rules by going to the confession box, paying attention to the conversation between the Priest and my friend, their conversation was not understood in all the letter but I understood enough that that friend of mine with my other friends had committed some extraordinary sin.

This crime was planned by this friend sitting in the confession box. Perhaps after committing a crime, his conscience was now burdened by that crime or sin.

I was now very much curious to know all the things and the crime he had committed, but I could not know who was actually in the confession box. So I hid behind a tree in the courtyard of the church and from there kept an eye on the main entrance of the church, so that whenever he left, I could recognize him.

After some time, I saw Archibald coming out of the main entrance of the church, seeing him my eyes burst in surprise.


Archibald was a very good friend, "so I couldn't believe that my friend coming out of church was Archibald, but my eyes weren't deceiving. I was so sorry to see that the friend I'd love to be my best friend." A good friend and character thought that he was not only involved in any big crime but was the main planner of that crime.

I have decided in my mind that I will keep knowing this whole matter, otherwise, I will also have a feeling of guilt that my friends are responsible for some terrible conspiracy or crime, and I also live with them, so it will be felt that I was also involved in this crime.

In the evening of the same day, I attended a meeting of my circle of friends and without delay asked Archibald directly whether they had gone to church this morning, Archibald nodded in agreement. I asked again, have all of your friends committed any serious crime, for which they went to church to confess?

Hearing this, there was silence in my friend circle, nothing came out of my mouth.

Then a friend asked courageously how did you know?

I told them that by chance I was also in the church today when Archibald was confessing his crime to the priest in the confession box, but because it was not according to the rules of the church, I did not listen to the whole thing, now you guys Tell yourself what crime have you committed? No one spoke for a while, then in the end Archibald started speaking.


Picking up the half-empty bottle of ketchup, which was kept in the same room, Archibald started saying in his hand, the real story started with this bottle of ketchup, all of us friends went to a bar to drink wine that day Well, that day a dancer in the bar was also doing pole dancing, the atmosphere became quite colourful.

We all drank a little too much, there was a 30-year-old weak waiter serving at our table, and someone from us ordered French Potato Fried. That waiter brought this half-filled ketchup bottle with those fried potatoes, seeing that some of us got angry with that waiter due to excessive intoxication, and made indecent with him.

This incident created a ruckus in the bar and two security personnel at the bar also ran and pounced on us. In a scuffle and an angry fight, someone from us pulled a heavy brass ashtray on the table and hit him, and we all somehow managed to escape from there.

Somebody from us had brought this bottle by mistake from there. But we came to know in the news the next day that the waiter had lost his life due to the ashtray in that incident, due to which we are all very upset since then.

I told them that you have not done all this knowingly, it was an accident, you all go and tell the truth to the police, the court will surely give you relief and maybe leave you with a fine. Otherwise, all of you will not be able to live happily for the rest of your life because of this guilt.

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