Have you ever noticed that the people who have done the most damage to the life of other people are always the ones who are telling the world of all of the good things that they have done?  They hurt other people, they damaged the life of other people, yet they are the ones who proclaim, “I am this,” “I am that,” “Look at me and all of the good things I have and I am doing.”
 
I am certain that there are a million psychological reasons for why each individual who has previously walked a path of damage, hurt, and destruction finds it necessary to proclaim their goodness. But, at the root of all of that is denial. They are pretending to be something that they are not.  Even if it is something that they wish to believe they once were, but are no more, if the damage they created has not totally been removed than, truly, who is that person? Answer, a liar. If not just a liar to themselves, but a liar to the entire world.
 
Here's the thing, you can hide from your karma. You can pretend that you did not do bad things. You can lie to the world about the fact that you did do bad things. You can try to hide who and what you truly were. But, all of that is not based upon any level of truth. Truth, especially to yourself.
 
Some people very consciously lie about who they once were and what they once did. Others, find themselves lost in a world of their own internal deception and they do not hold themselves responsible for their previous actions. Some even hope the truth of who they were, if it is hidden deep enough, will never come out. But, the fact of the truth of life is, if what you have done, no matter how long ago, has hurt the evolution of the life of anyone else, you are responsible. No matter who you proclaim yourself to be and/or who you believe you have become will change any of that. No matter how much good you do, (or even others believe you have recently done), none of that will affect the hurt you have unleashed. If you do not fix and repair the negative things you have done, how can any of the good you are currently doing hold any true meaning?
 
That’s the truth. Now, what do you have to say about yourself.