Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Me Me Me
I feel like I always think about myself first unfortunately. I’d like to be one of those people that naturally things about others first, but I am not that person. I’ll give you some examples. A little while ago I went for a run and I saw seven different cop cars in five minutes and the first thing I thought was why am I being followed? Also if anybody ever yells somebody’s name out, I look. Even if it isn’t my name, I figure I might know the person. Beyond that, even if it is a name of somebody that I don’t know I still think it will somehow connect back to me.
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It's only natural that you are the center of your own universe. The physical limitations of existence allow us no other option. Think about it. You set an alarm for when YOU need to wake up. Then you shower YOURSELF. Then YOU pick out clothes and dress YOURSELF. All day long your actions are focused on yourself, isn't it natural for tendencies and thoughts to follow? Certainly there's a selflessness that comes along with parenthood and humanitarian efforts and the like but it's never 100% selflessness. That would never work. If you want to help or care for other people, you must first take care of yourself and your own well-being in order to enable yourself to do so. For example, if you only made food for and fed other people, you would die of starvation. It is imperative that you think of yourself. That's not to say you can't think of other people, but it is almost always secondary. Even if you give someone else a blanket at the expense of being cold yourself, you must first have thought of the fact that you could survive without long enough to satisfy the other person's needs. Only the rarest of scenarios allow only one survivor between yourself and another person. Given that it is highly unlikely for us to end up in such a scenario (or realize that a course of action could lead to someone's eventual death and take the fact into consideration at the time), we think of ourselves first.
ReplyDeleteboom tho... I (clearly) didn't think about it like that. Now I feel better about MYSELF. thanks.
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