What makes a good person?
Is a good person someone who does no wrong, thinks no wrong, sees no wrong, and has no wrongs?
Personally, the most “good” people I know are those who have dark pasts. Those who have experienced the worst life can throw at you.
Some of those people were not all that good, but then became good over time.
My definition of a good person is not someone who has never done wrong or does no wrong. Someone without flaws.
A good person to me is someone who knows themselves well enough to know we all have flaws. We all have both good and evil inside of us.
I look at those people who have been given the worst and who know evil, but can still control themselves enough to let good persevere as role models.
Everyone has their demons, some more horrific than others.
But becoming a good person isn’t about getting rid of them. That’s impossible. Those demons are you. Your history is you.
Becoming a good person, to me, is about realizing and admitting. your demons, overcoming them, and then living with them. Never returning to the state of evil you once lived in despite how much the urge nags and eats at you.
I have no time for those people who act as though they can do no wrong. Who believe that they have never done evil and instead cast judgement on other’s as they live out their inevitable truth as a human: acting evil.
We all are trying to be good people. But in the midst of becoming a better person, let us not forget that we all have been and will be battling the evil within us.
Giving grace to ourselves and other’s is what makes someone a good person.
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