Thursday, February 10, 2005

Be selfish: why must the sound suffer the sick?

Being selfish must be somewhere in your highest priorities. I know it seems like a rule that you may think we follow anyway involuntarily. But you’d be surprise how often we fail to satisfy our most essential needs in order to either provide for others whether it is in a financial or emotional way. This society is structured around the idea of altruism, and it is good to see the great fruits that such a devotion and sacrifice might bring to the existential table. But in the same process, we fail to acknowledge our own desires, and we often incur into the habit of denying ourselves the pleasure that by nature we so desperately seek. Perhaps selfishness is seen in a very dim light here. It shouldn’t be the case. The idea that selfishness could destroy somehow the morality to which we are socially abound to is an exaggeration that will never take place. Of course, there are the horrific results of being in a state of constant indulgence, and extreme selfishness brings the most dire consequences to those who follow this vicious course. For one thing is to satiate your thirst with plenty of fresh water and another to be in a constant state of thirst as that caused by fever. Sickness is not my proposition. But once in a while the need to misbehave is in order. Why must the sound suffer the sick?

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