Redefining Selfishness:
Don't look at the dog in her day cage when you're driving away. She's fine.
Remind yourself many times during the day who you are by saying the words, "Be Selfish." At first it may feel weird, but trust me, it'll grow on you.
Remember, Selfish isn't MEAN. Mean is neurotic, you want to hurt someone. Selfish is merely accepting the STATUS QUO OF REALITY that we're separate, rational beings in an irrational* world. The only way to navigate the paradox of all this is to remind yourself of your separateness and act accordingly. There are many "tendrils" that will reach out to prevent you from acting this way. "Society" (a bad word I know) has built-in preferences, such as a parent is UNSELFISH, a nice person is UNSELFISH, but as we know, this kind of unselfishness is usually neurotic. What it really means is that the person's agenda is hidden, they get satisfaction from CONTROLLING others (children), they like to manipulate others into thinking of WELL of them (how "unselfish" they are!) and lastly they are merely righteous and lazy and want to convince you they are right (i.e. good, i.e. unselfish) because they "care more" than you do about "others" including other things, even imaginary things like "The Earth." Can anyone really care about The Earth? How absurd. Isn't this really the same thing as a Puritan saying what he cares more about is the SALVATION OF SOULS? It's all imaginary geography, however pseudo-scientifically sounding.
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