Daily Prompt – October 14, 2026

I think this is a hard question. I think it’s something people want an easy answer to but there isn’t one. Good people can do bad things and that doesn’t make them any less good. Bad people can do good things and that doesn’t make them any less bad. Also, yes, I realize I haven’t answered the question.

The truth is, I don’t know what it means to be a good person. I’d like to think it means you do things with good intentions. That you are focused on the well being of the world around you and not just yourself. I would like to believe that good people see the good in others and strive to bring that out. I hope that I am a good person.

I also know that we all have moments that we don’t think are so good. Motivations and intentions that are not good. Also our intentions don’t really matter if someone reacts poorly because that is their lived experience as well. I guess the question becomes when does a good person stop being good. How many moments of bad does it take? Conversely, how many moments of good does it take to make a bad person good?