The Good Person Test

(Written January 2010)



I wondered today if I am a good person. I would like to think I am but fall short sometimes. Several incidents occurred in a row where people and organizations for which I have suffered a lot (asking for nothing in return), have turned around and very forwardly spat in my face.

Did they do this because I am not a good person, or is it just that human nature makes the majority of mankind selfish only out to serve himself.

I took the “Good Person Test” above, and the result pretty much reaffirms a belief I’m starting to hold strong. That no matter how good you are to anyone else, whether it be a so-called friend, an organization, a child, or a deity of choice, your efforts will never be mirrored to you in kind. Ever. One must be honest with one’s self and measure their current self worth and self respect against that of past self-measures, and truthfully assess whether they themselves have become a better person, regardless of the fact that society will continue to show a darkness within you that only you can determine is not actually so dark.