Maybe I am a good person who has done some bad things

Is being a good person a privilege? Is it a learned skill? Does it come with age?

This weekend we went out of town. It was to a small cabin in the woods outside of Yosemite. Just the four of us. My partner, my father, M, and me. It was a two-hour drive each way. On the trip home I asked my father if he had ever driven drunk.

He said yes. Many times. Not in the past 40 years or so. But he had. (Now that I think about it, this conversa…