I’m a good person… Why can’t that be enough

On this site I’ve seen you call someone stupid. I’ve seen you call someone a screw up. I’ve seen you judge someone’s completely human mistakes. I’ve even seen you express that you want to hurt someone.

Someone… namely yourself.

This is not something a good person does.

A good person buys himself a cup at Starbucks and talks to himself and listens to himself and forgives himself. And then goes out in the world and maybe fails again but still forgives himself. Ad infinitum.

Once you do that other people will want to be around you. Do that and you’ll be doing more than helping hobos; you’ll be giving hope to heroes. Do that and you’ll see the difference between fake fawners and formidable friends. Do that and you’ll live and love and likely lick leather looms loosely. I have no idea what that last part meant.

Forgiving yourself… sounds easy but tricky to do. A therapist armed with drugs may be required to help. Being open about your thoughts will be a must. It will take time. It will take practice.

The payoff is one day you will have the love of your life in your arms and you can tell her the story of how making mistakes and forgiving yourself led to this most wonderful of days. And she will sigh and be happy to hear this because she was nervous about telling you she wrecked your car.