I’m seeing examples of just how selfish we are. Ok, since this is my blog, I’ll try to not refer to the “we” but rather the “me” but I’ll use others as examples, using me might just be too transparent…
My kids, who’s disappointed that she “didn’t get anything i wanted” for her birthday. Ugh. Ok, so we didn’t spend a lot of cash. And, we’re still debating a few things. But, is that a model of selfishness? I guess it’s her party and she can cry if she wants to, but wow.
I do remember a similar birthday myself. I didn’t get much. And I was a bit (ok, a lot) disappointed. Sure, dad was unemployed at the time, but didn’t they understand?
So for me, there’s lots of things going on which on some surface level, seem quite altruistic. Yet, as we dig deeper, perhaps they are just serving me.
I’m not verbalizing this well today. I’ve been thinking about this a lot and figuring I’d write something at some point and I thought what I’d write would be brilliant. Perhaps that there is another example of self-serving…
Ugh.
