How Do You Know if you're doing the right Thing?

Do you ever have a feeling in your heart/gut/mind that right at that very moment you need to do something?

Sometimes it can be something as simple as turning right instead of left. You don't know why you made that decision when you always go left but that day, something told you to turn right and later you found out there was a wreck and you would have been right in the middle of it.

Or

You decide to get up and make breakfast for the first time in forever. Later on when you've had to work through your lunch hour unexpectedly, you are thankful that you had a strange feeling to get up early.

Or

You know you should keep something to yourself because you know in the end it will hurt someone but deep down you know the "right thing to do" is tell.

Or

You get a feeling to give someone a compliment out of nowhere. Come to find out later, they had actually been thinking something bad and your comment really affect how the rest of their day turned out.

But sometimes, you don't get a feeling. Sometimes you get a lack of feeling. Some things happened tonight and the past couple of nights in which I have felt like a tattle tail. I know that, in a way, I'm doing the right thing. But I still have a tinge of guilt.

I don't think you should ever talk bad about a person. There has been one person in my whole life in which I now use the word hate and asshole for. I've talked with several friends about it and my philosophy on the matter. We have all come to agreement that I have every right to use those two words in conjunction with a certain person. Beyond that, no. I am a rational and logical thinker. If a person does wrong to another human, then there is cause for retaliation. But only if one wronged the other. If both wronged each other, then both need to admit fault.

So my original question is: how do you know if you're doing the right thing?

Doing the right thing is standing up for your beliefs. It does not mean that you let things slide here and there. Doing the right thing builds character.

Doing the right thing could cost you.