(September 14, 2016 at 3:08 am)Thena323 Wrote: Utterly convinced that a vast number of individuals who would consider themselves "decent" people are actually pure shit/human garbage. This isn't a recent revelation; I've know it for many, many, years. It just happens to be my lead thought, at the moment.
One of the first things I had to come to grips with in my recovery was self-honesty. I think most of us think, "I'm me, therefore I'm good," and that clouds our ability to assess our behavior objectively. We all want to think we're good people, but rather than looking at our behavior to see if that's the case, we seem to use "I'm me, therefore I'm good" as an axiom -- a starting point or filter through which we look at ourselves.
At least, that was the case with me, for far too long.