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klach
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ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!

Chazal say that the first time a person does a aveirah, he feels bad; the second time, naaseh lo kiheter; the third, naaseh lo kimitzvah mamesh. It’s totally normal. In fact, one of the biggest dangers is feelnig that it’s not normal. It is. Also, chazal say that it would be kedai to create the entire world just so one person can say one boruch hu uvaruch shemo. Think about that. How many times have you had a pleasant interaction with someone? Huge mitzvah every time and for every second. How many amens – which are each worth 1000 X one boruch hu uvaruch shemo – have you said? Thousands and thousands. You gotta realize that really you are a big tremendous tzaddik and have literally infinite potential and that HASHEM really, really, really desperately wants YOU to succeed to your fullest, cosmic capabilities! Chazal say that a mitzvah becomes a part of you forever whereas an aveirah is meely a stain that can be washed out which covers a mitzvah but does not in any way erase any part of it in the slightest. Just the fact that you don’t want to be a rasha is amazing! Besides, rasha is one of the most overused, missapplied terms – a real rasha as defined by chazal is someone who is truly wicked with hideous middos, like a moser. Not remotely close to someone who sincerely longs and yearns for the ability to do whats right and to cease doing aveiros.