Guilt

I need to know if this happens to other people, or if I'm just a little crazy.  I mean I know I'm a little crazy - we all are - but this, I feel, is going a bit mad.  Earlier this week, my boss - who I'm quite close to - told me that HR had requested a meeting with her about an "employee issue." My boss wasn't exactly sure what it was about at all and she was a bit worried that someone had complained about her.

Well she met with HR, and by the end of the meeting both the HR lady and my boss were both laughing as they left her office.  When I asked my boss if everything was ok, she said "yeah, it's fine."  That right there, should have been the end of it, right?  Nope, instead since Monday I've been worried that the employee that was having the issue was me, and that I'm about to be fired.  

Not that there's a single reason why I should be fired or why HR would even want to discuss me with anyone at all.  When I told people at work about my fear their second response (first was to tell me I was nuts) was that HR would be more worried about them, than me. But that doesn't stop me from fearing that I'm part of some undercover sting, and they're just waiting for me to check my facebook account or use too many of the tea bags in the kitchen, and then it would be lights out.

Yep, this is how my mind has worked for the last 48 hours.  I swear it's the Catholic guilt thing. I went to Catholic school for 13 years. I still go to mass at least twice a month.  That little nagging feeling that Catholics get when they do anything close to resembling "wrong" is constantly with me.  I worry about laws that I might break.  I worry that I've done something to offend someone if they just happen to not say hello in the hall.  I worry that the sky will fall if I disagree with someone.  I worry that I'm going to be fired because HR spoke to my boss about something that I shouldn't have known about in the first place.

This is considered normal, right?  Please tell me there are other people out there that have the same guilty complex I do.  If for no other reason than to take my mind off of worrying that I'm going to be fired...