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One of my greatest worries is ever becoming anything like my dad. Those familiar with my story will know that for most of my life me and my mom suffered from the cruelty and evil of my dad (although he does now seem to have mended his ways). My mom,by contrast,has always been an exceptionally good and kind hearted person. I’ve always tried to follow my mom’s example and be as much like her (and as little like my dad) as possible and be as good a person as I can be but I worry alot about how well I’m doing. It’s easy to just see myself as good because I want it to be true but I’m wondering what people think. How do I really come across? Am I actually a good person?
Am I a good person?
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Tarrabyte
You recognized it early, you took the steps to make it better, that's what matters.
MEGURI
morality comes in many, maany forms .. i'd say the path to righteousness is loving yourself and others.. really, that's all.
bad people exploit peoples weaknesses and fall into sin just for the sake of it
...a factor that's helped me is to try and not let the actions of others bother me, as letting the behaviors of others get to you may make you bad because of bad people
people are going to be people, unfortunately, sin is inevitable , but that's what makes redemption so satisfying, i guess. and justice, in its own way
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Clara of Spacehaze
I think in your heart of hearts you Know you're a good person. It repels you to see other people being bullied or abused - as you demonstrated the other day with the incident that happened at school, with the boy lashing out at that girl.
Two things can happen when people have had a traumatic/abusive upbringing - they themselves can become abusers when they mature and carry on the cycle, Or they are totally the opposite and want to protect their own children or others from similar injustices.
We all have choices how we want to conduct ourselves in society - it's what's inside... :)
Are you feeling angry about your past, Jamara?
The question of whether I’m feeling angry about my past is a complicated one. If you mean the type of anger that makes someone bitter and wanting to lash out then definitely no. To me that’s something that does more harm than good. (For clarification on that point see my blog “Why I refuse to follow the path of bitterness and hate”). If anything does make me angry it’s the fact that even while I’m typing this thousands of other kids are trapped in the type of abusive programs that I experienced. The fact that these programs are even allowed makes me angry. That’s why I’m so expeditious about telling my story. I realise that my telling my story is not going to be enough to stop these programs but I tell it in the hope that maybe some parents thinking of sending a child to one of them may read my story and reconsider and hopefully there may one or more child who is saved from being put through the horrors that I and so many others have suffered.
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my advice is that: a bad person isn't aware they are a bad person. at least for me, if i'm stressed that i'm a bad person, the fact that i'm thinking about it in the first place snaps me out of it. does that make sense lol
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From what i can tell by your profile, you seem like a good person :]