003 » ANONYMOUS; TEXT aka more questions at 2 am

[givenofox]

I guess there's no way to ask this that doesn't sound like a philosophy major trying to do their thesis at the last second so...

There's a lot of hero types here. You rush in to help when something happens and don't even think about it. I'd say that makes you good people.

Do you (or all of us here, I guess) think it's possible, if someone really tries, to start being a good person? Even if you've done horrible things? Like really, really bad things. Does the reason you did them matter?

Or maybe we're just meant to be bad and trying to pretend otherwise.

[ ...wow this sounds so much more melodramatic than he intended. ]

Comments

anon;

[unhappy]

You don't have to be a good person just to makeup for what you've done. Just don't make things worse.

Most of what makes bad people bad in the first place is because life was unfair to them in the first place. We didn't deserve what happened to us, and we got mixed up in something we didn't want to. We don't need to deserve to be happy any more than we deserved to be miserable to begin with. You don't have to be a good person. You can be yourself, and just try not to hurt anybody and make more people suffer that same misery you didn't deserve in the first place. Chances are they don't deserve it either, and that's what makes you a bad person.

At least that's how I'm seeing it. Otherwise it's just a lifetime of tormenting yourself for making the wrong choices when there wasn't a right one to begin with.

anon;

[givenofox]

What if theoretically you're already a little behind on the 'don't hurt anybody or make them suffer your misery' thing?

Re: anon;

[unhappy]

You can't take back what's done. There's no what-ifs about it. You can't ask for the people you hurt to forgive you but you don't have to add to that list. Don't make yourself miserable for someone who just wants you to be miserable as if it makes up for theirs.