Do you consider yourself a good person?

[Aloken]

I've made terrible mistakes, but only because I was hurting deeply and I couldn't control it. My heart was in the right place, but I can't say the same about my mind. It has hurt me and others so much. I sometimes thought I was a bad person, but those were just feelings of regret about my mistakes. I'm not a bad person, I'm a good person who made mistakes that I wish I could take back. That is all.

This world surely isn't completely good. Even so, I don't believe there are bad people. There are good people with problems that do bad things, that's all. I feel compassion for each and every one out there. I choose love

 

[Gonjoolie]

I consider myself a good person nowadays, but I used to be a real piece of shit and the guilt from over how I used to be a piece of shit is one of the many reasons I plan to cbt

 

[one.way.out]

I'm a legitimately terrible person. And I can promise you it's not the "depression lying to me."

 

[katerskiet]

Morality is a spook, kiddo.

 

[DunnoWhyButYeah]

No... I hurt people, I'm selfish. Everything what is happening to me is right. Still I'm probably more good than bad, maybe.

 

[NasiGoreng]

When your told you are bad from the day you are born you start believing in it.

 

[CivilizationV]

No. It's not black and white, but definetely tilted towards the shitty side.

 

[ncmxm]

No and now I don't even try to be one most of the time, which makes me an even worse person ig
At least I'm not lying to myself

 

[Mr2005]

I do my best to make up for what I've done in the past. If I was a terrible person it would be a lot easier to forgive myself. Or maybe not. It was me I hurt, no one else. Not intentionally anyway

 

[lotus11]

Yes I do consider myself a good person and that's the curse for me, cuz being a "good" person is the worst thing ever because this world is full of bad people, life gets really difficult for a good person , and bad people are strong and they know how to survive, but the good person is always suffering, I really dunno why it happens like this but yea I'm a good person and my life really is hell because of it

I feel exactly the same as you

 

[Snake of Eden]

No but i think my autism spectrum and other health issues contributed to my bad deeds

 

[blue_muse]

I'm neither good nor bad. Very insightful question you ask noname223 .

 

[FuneralCry]

Maybe I do overall see myself as a good person. I see myself as a victim of this life, I never asked to be here and to suffer and many of the bad things that have happened to me have been out of my control. I used to have a lot of self hatred but that is now directed at existence and life in general. I am a selfish person and I have negative personality traits but to me that is part of being human. To me the world is the problem and my circumstances. I see myself as deserving better than this life, I deserve to be at peace.

 

[catdaddy2601]

I'm good in some ways, awful in others. My childhood (and adult) trauma has effected me to the level where I can unintentionally hurt ppl. Sometimes this is because im scared they are going to hurt me first.

I guess the answer is: i'm a BROKEN person

 

[Remember-Me-Not]

I think... I have an innate good moral compass. As a child, when I lied about something, I would confess 10 seconds later that I lied because I felt guilty for lying. I always worried for other people, and cared for them deeply.

But somewhere along the way I slowly started losing that true "goodness" that I held. I distinctly remember a moment in elementary school when I was at this afterschool program for tutoring kids. I remember how obsessive I was trying to find out if my friend's parents did corporal punishment for being bad (specifically getting hit on the palm of your hand with a ruler).

I wanted others to feel the same pain I did.

I had another friend in elementary school who confided to me about certain things. I wanted to see him get into trouble, so I always told my mom any of the bad things he did. This lead to my mom telling his mom. My mom always praised me for being a "better kid" than him. He stopped talking to me one day.

Then in high school I had a friend that became the sole target of my jealousy and cruelty. I purposefully threw her under the bus whenever I talked to my mom about her. I always reported to my mom how stupid she was, and how ugly she was, and that I was way smarter and prettier. (Just so I could get a scrap of positive attention from my mom).

I reflect on those times now, and I think I'm a horrible person. I wish I had been stronger and less selfish to not give into my own desperation.

 

[CuriousAboutThis]

I used to think I'm a good person but I know that I've done bad things in my life which I will keep to myself but honestly I don't know anymore but things aren't going bad in my life currently and hopefully it stays that way.

 

[A_miStake_of_NATURE]

I'm somewhere in between (hopefully). I mean, they must be worse people than me. But yeah. I think I totally deserve all the pain I've been experiencing for the past years. It's for all the times that I hurt good people, especially my parents.

 

[plough22]

Yes I consider myself a good person, naive and trusting one too. Stupid too, I tried to be nice, do my best and the world still shits on me. Where is karma.

 

[Heartaches]

I've never broken the law, I rarely stepped out of line and usually keep everything to myself. Like you, I also used to be an ambitious and promising student until adolescence, where almost everything went downhill for me, due to many reasons. Even though I've met some horrible and disgusting people who have hurt me deeply and generally been a victim to their actions, I wouldn't consider myself a good person.

I had a lot of emotional bursts caused by my undiagnosed depression, anxiety, and probably as a reaction to the "abuse and neglect" I suffered when I was younger and bottling everything up, but I do not believe those things justify my actions and I've never been able to forgive myself for them as I hurt the people who genuinely cared and loved me, In a way, I've always felt part of the mistreatment I received was justified.

I know it may seem as an exaggeration and not as bad as physically hurting someone or drunk driving or whatever, but I've never felt I'm as pure and innocent as people make me out to be, and I've been living with lots of regrets and guilt for years now.​

 

[Symbiote]

Chaotic good.

 

[eyesoftheabyss]

yeah, I lean more in the good. I'm very conscious of how I treat people and try my best to treat people fairly and I think that's what makes someone "good" . I can be self destructive but I can't manipulate people and I don't intentionally hurt anyone. I think the lack of justice in the world contributed to my suicidal ideations

 

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i dont believe in good or bad, just people acting their own interests. the problem is do you think people in your life perceive you to be good or bad. personally, my behaviour in suicidality and my selfish dependency on one person would understandably be viewed quite negatively by people (and has)

 

[xrosex]

No

 

[anywherebuthere]

Yes which makes it worse that my life has come to this point. Being a good person means nothing in this universe .

 

[Looooser]

Interesting question.....I think I'm a good person in that I'll help anyone in anyway I possibly can. I do live with a lot of regrets and guilt that haunt me everyday so I'm some ways I don't consider myself a good person.

 

[S like suicide]

Yes,even too good but noone gives a fuck about it

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

Definitely not, I am extremely selfish and have zero patience with people when I expect patience and compassion for myself. The only thing nice about me is that I care a lot about animals and will go out of my way to help them.

 

[cyanlove]

I wanted to kill myself even when I thought I was a good person. I think I've done horrible things and should atone for them, but I can't.

 

[Nolan96]

I hope so, but I'm also jaded because most people who call themselves good people in my life have turned out to be horrible.
So there's a block in my head where I don't feel comfortable calling myself that.
I also feel hated and demonized by others and want validation I never get, so it's a whole complex for me I guess.
Anyway, I guess it hardly matters if I'm just rotting away and barely interact with the world.

 

[wrybuzzard]

I hope so, I work in a helping profession job. I try to be nice to people I come i to contact with. But when I'm ill I can badly hurt those closest to me.
So what does that make me?