guilt

If you know that knowing something will only end up hurting you, would you still want to know it? on the contrary, if confessing something means you'll end up only hurting the person hearing it, but not change anything, would you still confess?
perhaps yes for the first (curiosity never left the cat alone and i’m a born trouble seeker you see) and someday for the later (oh, a coward too, sometimes).. because the guilt of -having done something that you believe you should not have done or conversely, having not done something you believe you should have done - is not something i'd wan't to put up with for long..