Self-centeredness

I cannot even count the times that I have put myself above everyone and everything else. The end result has always been unfruitful. One of my friends is trying to get me to acknowledge the exact nature of my wrongs. This person is hell-bent on making me acknowledge my faults. If I refuse, they claim that I am in denial. I'm not in denial, I just don't like to magnify problems and be over-dramatic. But by the same token, this friend of mine is a good person and onlly has, it seems, good intentions. So I will acknowledge before God and the world, that YES, I have been extremely self-centered. However, that is only when my mind has been altered by a foreign substance, that is, illicit drugs. If I am not high, I think about other people, and I am very caring. No one on earth is perfect and it seems someone is always pointing the finger at someone else. Remember this: when you are pointing a finger, you have three pointing back at you. It seems for some people, I can never do anything right, so I figure you can't please them all, all of the time. And if they don't like it, oh well, life goes on with or without.