I can’t believe the person I used to be. I wanted to be a good person so badly that I faked it. I made up so many lies and I’m horrified and disgusted that I did it. It went on for so long..way too long. I felt like I needed to keep people’s attention with drama or they wouldn’t love me. Now I have to live with this albatross of guilt every day and I deserve to. I stopped lying 5 years ago but it will always haunt me. I can’t believe I did it. I deserve to be exposed but I don’t think I can live if I am. But that’s the coward in me talking. If I am exposed then I deserve to live with the crushing shame.
I was so used to being manipulated and abused by my family that lying became an escape. I imagined whole worlds where I could be angelic and good and people would want to rescue me. Unbelievably selfish. There is no excuse, no matter what my childhood was like. I would do anything to take it all back. The people in my life don’t and never have deserved it..all the b.s. I put them through. It’s disgusting of me. I don’t know why it took me so long to see how wrong it was..I was addicted to being a fantasy of a person. The real me isn’t so great. I get angry and I have secret desires and I am not the pure and innocent thing I wish I was. I will spend every day of the rest of my life trying to be truly good.
