Discussion [poll] Do you think you are a good person?

[Imausername]

Do you think you are a good person?
After all thats happened in your life.
After all the mistakes youve made?
Do you see yourself as a good person in a bad situation.
Simply wrong place wrong time could happen to anyone.

Or do you think you are bad for whats happened like you deserve this?

 

[Kanau_Nano]

I think I'm a bad and good person. Not strictly one. I have a lot of regret about what I've done. I do try my best to put good into the world tho

 

[ZwartHartje]

It's a pretty complex question to just answer yes or now, but overall, yes. Everyone makes mistakes, and I don't think I've made more than others.
I try to understand them and the reasons why I made them. If there's one thing mistakes are good for, it's to learn from them.

 

[Dejected 55]

I think I'm a good person. Good people don't always do only good things. Also, sometimes a bad person does a good thing. But overall, I think I'm far more good than bad. But... it also doesn't really make a difference. Some of the best people in history have had the roughest lives and been shit on throughout. Meanwhile, you don't have to look too hard to find examples of bad people doing bad things who seem to keep getting good results.

 

[Seneca65AD]

I'm with Dejected55 on this one. I definitely have my issues but generally I try to be good. Also, "bad" is such a broad term that can encompass murder to simply having an impure thought about the cleaning lady. My transgressions tend to be more of the latter. I very seldom comes across truly "bad" people; most are self-absorbed leaning towards selfishness but I never really see anyone at their best due to my practice so I have to cut them slack.

Of course, maybe we are all victims of a Dunning-Kruger variation where instead of thinking we are smarter than we are, we all think we are "better" than we are.

 

[badtoad12314]

I try my hardest to be good but im a horrible person. Everything i try just isnt good enough and i just keep digging myself deeper into this hole. If i was good i dont think things would have gone this bad. Sure maybe the first couple times maybe it could have been bad luck but the constant downward tragectory theres obviously alot im doing wrong. People around me swear up and down that im a good person but they have all left now because of my actions. So i just cant believe it.

 

[princess kitty]

I feel as though I do my best to be a good person in present moments, but find myself feeling as though I'm the worst person in the world in retrospect. I typically feel regretful as if I burdened, or negatively impacted those around me.

 

[Insomniac Butterfly]

It's a complex question, and I don't think most people can be summed up as good or not good, but I definitely have a lack of goodness in me that can be tracked throughout my whole life
despite my small efforts to be good and always being worried about doing the right thing.
Actions speak much louder than words do, and words without proper action behind them are just lies.
I view myself as the center of everything and only really think about things that affect me and have to be constantly reminding myself that im doing it.
If I was truly good, I'd care to take care of myself to not worry the people around me. I'd not be so caught up in my own past and self hatred as to completely remove myself from everyone's lives and prevent anyone new from getting close to me. I would have given everyone the attention and care they deserved. Id strive to learn and be better, if not for me then for my family, ex coworkers and ex friends, but instead I look at others with jealously or judgement. Hating them for being happier than me, or for having what i could never while picking apart their flaws, as if I try anywhere near as much as they do to be good and live life. This is simply not how a good honest person thinks, acts, or perceives things , at least in my experience of meeting genuinely amazing kind people they don't.
I wish I cared more to be better rather than seemingly being content with hating myself for not being better.

 

[itsgone2]

I was bad for most of my life. I honestly didn't know. It's no excuse. But it's led me here. Unreal.

 

[TomIsNotMyName]

I try to be a good person but i don't know if I really am. I feel like I accidentally hurt the people around me even though I'm trying to help them.
I wouldn't say I deserve this, but I also wouldn't say that I'm a good person

 

[FailedTurtle]

I try to be a good person but i don't know if I really am. I feel like I accidentally hurt the people around me even though I'm trying to help them.
I wouldn't say I deserve this, but I also wouldn't say that I'm a good person

Me too. Well, my parents taught me to be a good person, but I found that being a good person is what gets me isolated, mocked, and just overall loser. I tried to do nice things without expecting anything in return. But I always messed up, or people just got mad at me. It got me nowhere. So, I stopped trying. Maybe I was expecting something? I don't know, but I think there's no benefit to being good.

 

[TomIsNotMyName]

Me too. Well, my parents taught me to be a good person, but I found that being a good person is what gets me isolated, mocked, and just overall loser. I tried to do nice things without expecting anything in return. But I always messed up, or people just got mad at me. It got me nowhere. So, I stopped trying. Maybe I was expecting something? I don't know, but I think there's no benefit to being good.

I want to be a good person and I try to be but i don't know if it's working

 

[FailedTurtle]

I want to be a good person and I try to be but i don't know if it's working

That's very admirable. I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with being a good person. I suppose it used to feel more natural, but now it is only tiring. I wish you best luck. Well, I can only see you on the screen, but to me, you are a good person.

 

[PainThreshold]