What is your reasoning with being a good person? If you consider yourself one?
Maybe you believe in karma, or have fear of a higher power, or simply you like to see others happy or you are simply an empath, or maybe because you have in a way suffered so choose to be ‘good’ in your own way.
What do you think ? How do you validate your actions when they are not accepted by another. Maybe you think stealing from the rich is OK for example but giving to the poor is not something you’d consider.
I’m both good and bad. Sometimes I have good intentions and do bad things. Other times when I do good things I am psychologically expecting a reward the majority if not all the time because I have been taught that or I hope there is a Heaven even though I sometimes doubt there is. I want to believe I do good for the sake of good but i usually remember something about what I did that puts it into question. In other words I overanalyze myself either consciously or subconsciously which is a big reason I’m as messed up as I am. I doubt that I truly am a good person and am certain I am not a good person all the time even though i desire to be. And in some cases I don’t know what defines a good or a right thing to do because its a questionable thing. I question that anyone is truly good but don’t know because I know now that the only mind I can read is my own and I don’t truly know what anyone else is really thinking or why they act the way they do.
Depends on your definition of good. Cos not everyone would think so if They knew percent me.
To me I’m good person, when I’m good , in my heart. I used to seek a lot of validation from others. But I guess now I only seek it inside my family cos I like to know If I’m causing terror I’m their lives. Which I can do particularly during my monthlies.
I am a good person and yes i believe in karma but I am not good just out of fear of punishment.
I am good cos I know goodness is the best thing, cos I am simple, I get disgusted by lies, evil, bad actions. it’s natural to me. I was raised as a child with the ideals of greek philosophers with ethics & good as the highest pleasure of a man. Socrates, Diogenes etc.
I like people and family. I listen. I listen well and communicate well.
I don’t judge people. Who am I to judge you who hasn’t walked in your shoes? I’m only human but with people I care about I don’t judge you about anything really- we all have baggage.
I have morals but aren’t religious…although I do like Taoism and the Iching! I care. I really do. Not everyone likes me but for most I’m a decent human being and that is a great cop these days!
I think I am a decent person but when I was psychotic before i was sectioned I felt pushed to the edge and I might have lashed out ( I didn’t though). I thought people were driving me to my death so I was at the end of my tether. And In the hospital I found it difficult to be in the cafeteria around knives and forks while people seemingly violated me and read my mind. It was a rough time. I was a Christian so I wouldn’t have hurt anyone but I was at the end of my tether and It made me feel like I must be a bad person. But I was deeply unwell and delusional so. But IRL I think I am gentle and sensitive to others. I have recovered now but I still have guilt about those delusional days. Ive come through it. I’m well now. I wouldn’t harm a fly…
I’ve done a few good things, like donating money to different organizations like Doctors without Borders and Amnesty International, but in some ways I’m not so good. I’m an environmentalist of sorts, but I keep the air conditioning on in my room at full blast all the time. Also, I’m a little too timid to be any kind of a hero. I hesitate when I should step in and try to take a situation in hand. I also brood a lot. These are things I need to work on.