Does this make me a bad person? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by lriv724@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve done alot of mischievous and unkind things throughout my education time (k-12) I made fun of people, bullied people, stole from people/stores, hit people, kicked people, did things to annoy people, and just overall did stupid shit to cause problems all because it either felt cool or because I thought it was funny. Some of these were things I did because my friends did them, but some were just me being stupid on my own. I am now 21 and recently I have thought about all of this and feel awful about the things I’ve done because I know it has affected people. I wish I could go back and have never done any of it. Is something wrong with me? Am I a bad person?

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[-] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Something that was said to me long ago by somebody I admired when I was a fuckwit teenager, “if you're not embarrassed of the person you were last year, you're not growing enough.” That has stuck with me for decades, I find it still applies and I’m scared of when I could realize it doesn’t.

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