How to Define a Good Person

These days, it seems like people define being good as being perfect. Whenever someone makes the smallest mistake, people cling to that person's mistake till the end of time. Being good to people is like wearing shaping underwear that's three sizes too small. When you make a mistake, it rips, and you have nothing to replace it with. So you're stuck with ripped underwear for all to see.

This isn't a new thing. Throughout history the most important figures are written as perfect figures. Think about it. Most people can not think of any imperfections that George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Junior, or Eleanor Roosevelt might have. The only way anyone could find a dark side to any of these figures would be if somebody studied these figures. Writing this post, I can tell you I can't tell you any certain imperfections of these people. Except Ben Franklin. I can tell you Ben Franklin owned slaves and used sex to get the French on our side during the Revolution. But other than that, I couldn't tell you about any other dark side.

The point I'm trying to make with this is that people try so hard to be perfectly good that when when all the bad they've done is thrust upon them, they forget a very important part.... owning up. Part of being a good person is not keeping tabs on all the good deeds you've done in your life. That's insignificant compared to the times you've stepped back and admitted you were wrong.

I will not sit here and tell you I'm a good person. There are people I hate, people I dislike. I've sat here and talked about others behind their backs. I've made fun of others, insulted them, bitch-slapped someone in the parking lot of a restaurant when they made me mad. I even got myself blocked during a game of drunken facebook roulette. I'm not proud of what I did at all. In fact, I feel childish of all of the stuff I did. If I ever want to feel like a good person in the future, I have to step back and admit this stuff happened. That's the bitter truth of it.

Moral of the post. If someone tries to tell you they're a good person, chances are they're not. The ones that try to tell they're not a good person are probably a better person than the ones that are. If not, then they're at least more humble.

Awkward picture of the day!