I would not necessarily say "horrible." But I do tend to think we're all bad people. Like, I think human nature is bad, and that's why we have all these rules, laws, social norms, etc.
I think it's a matter of self-awareness and being willing to face yourself. I don't think most of us seriously need others to tell us how/what we are; I think most of us don't want to know. We all do get told from time to time, but most of us don't react well to it and eventually dismiss what is said because we don't want it to be true. So, there's no point in the yearly review, in my opinion.
I can sit here and tell you a bunch of negative adjectives about myself, things that are not socially acceptable, and the only reason I won't is it's stuff that's not socially acceptable, lol. It's not because I don't know those things and don't want them to be true, like I think it is for 99% of people in the world. Of course it'd be better if they weren't true, so I'm not saying I am fine with those adjectives applying to me. But, like you said, I think the only way to improve is to face what's wrong with you. And, frankly, some of those things I don't always try/want to improve because I feel justified in being those ways.
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