I have never intentionally hurt anyone. However, being human, I have incidentally or accidentally hurt people on many occasions. When possible, I have worked to fix the problem and atone, but there are always things that are not possible to fix, or that we do not realize what we did until much later. I feel sorry for this younger generation as they are being misled about the human experience.

The older I get, the more memories of what I have done worm into my head without invitation. Driving down the road and a memory sweeps into my thoughts and I feel the guilt or shame like it were just yesterday. The only thing that holds me up during this experience is that I never intentionally tried to hurt anyone and I have always worked to resolve my misdeeds.

What it must be like to have intentionally hurt someone, then, decades later, to have the memories slam back into mind. Where can solace be found? I imagine that there are only three options: Over time, such a person will either become suicidal, addicted, or psychopaths. All from the effort to hide from their own emotions, and doing whatever it takes to maintain the lie that they are not evil.