Selfishness? The disease of humanity?

[Sparky Kronkite]

"Selfishness," - the disease of humanity. Do you have it?

By establishing your personal list of your "Priorities in Life" - in the proper order………..

You can self-diagnose……..

And the proper would be………….

1) The physical, mental and financial health of your immediate, (loving, we can only hope) family - spouse/life partner, children and extended.
2) Humanitarian deeds for all Mankind. Whether in the form of monetary donation or personal dedication in deed, toward a humanitarian cause. It is important that all people, "take time and give back," thus honoring "the privilege" of being alive on this planet."
3) Taking care of yourself.

It is my very strong belief - that anyone who does not place these priorities - in this particular order………

Well…….. their priorities are screwed up - and flat out wrong.

Selfish!

Which I happen to believe is the current decease of humanity.

Can you cure yourself??????

 

[Ambrosious]

2) Humanitarian deeds for all Mankind. Whether in the form of monetary donation or personal dedication in deed, toward a humanitarian cause. It is important that all people, "take time and give back," thus honoring "the privilege" of being alive on this planet."
3) Taking care of yourself.

Sorry, call me selfish, but if I don't take care of myself first, there won't be a "me" to take care of family or humanity.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

If you're a normal......

healthy, everyday, walking around human - taking care of yourself - "just enough to live, to remain alive" - is so easy that - it need not be discussed.

Or nit-picked about.

The selfishness I refer to - goes far beyond those basics living requirement - this is what I mean by the disease of humanity.

 

[Ambrosious]

Re: If you're a normal......

healthy, everyday, walking around human - taking care of yourself - "just enough to live, to remain alive" - is so easy that - it need not be discussed.

Or nit-picked about.

The selfishness I refer to - goes far beyond those basics living requirement - this is what I mean by the disease of humanity.

Well then, I'm OK. I've got my priorities in order. Thanks Spark.

 

[April]

Sorry, Sparky. I'm just a selfish bitch, then. I have no intention of changing, either. I come first in the majority of things. Hubby and the "kids" second, everybody else third.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Well then.....

maybe, just maybe - that's why things are, the way they are in your life. Which of course I only have a teeny weeny bit of insight into - but what little you have shared with me - well it doesn't see so great exactly. Sorry. But that's what I have seen.

This disease is easy to cure.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[April]

Exactly, Sparky. Teeny weeny bits of insight don't tell the whole story. I would love to have someone to tell the WHOLE story to, but I don't know or trust anyone that much. Well, there is one person, but I don't think he really wants to talk to me.

It's very difficult to piece together someone's life from this board. At least for me it is. And I'm really not so selfish as I proclaim. Damn this beige box! I'm gonna be late for work if I don't go take my shower right now.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Have a nice shower and......

e-me on the side anytime you wish. Your call.

You of course are totally right about piecing together one's life from this board or any other board.

I strongly sence, ever since I met you, that you "are not" a selfish bitch - not most of the time anyway.

Sometimes life factors account for slips into selfishness - that's normal. It's not normal to like it, welcome it or become complacent about.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Well CB.....

I guess I kinda agree with you here - considering that I think apathy is just about the worst form of selfishness - however, criminal selfishness (the crime of the greedy)is worse because it also hurts others.

 

[naudiz]

Sparky...

Get out of my head, man.

It bugs me how vapid, shallow, and screwed up humanity can be. Money has become more important than one's own family, spiritual health, emotional health... it's become more important than life itself. The miraculous gift that is life has been distilled into a race for who can collect the most green papery bits before one dies, and whoever gets crushed underheel on the way - well them's the breaks, chump.

And they say *I'm* sick?

Here's the catch, and I know whereof I speak because I learned this first-hand: the job, the house in the burbs, the car, the stock portfolio, even your health and your life - you can lose it all, at anytime, without any warning, even if you didn't do anything to 'deserve' losing it. Why? Because you didn't do anything to 'deserve' having it in the first place. No one is entitled to anything; the air you breathe is a gift.

Why is giving something back to the world such an irksome concept? I've never given anything away that didn't, in some way, come back to me. And while I understand apathy, my reasoning is: maybe nothing matters, but I've got nothing better to do waiting around here to die so I might as well kill some time by living.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you are the sole center of your world, I truly am sorry. How terribly small your world must be.

Sparky: you rock. Nuff said.

 

[teresafannin]

As a rule, my mom, my fiancee & the rest of my family come first, but right now, I have to take care of me. I am having a really bad depressive period & have come to the point of agreeing to try meds for a while. Once I get myself back to something that resembles normal, I can focus on everyone & everything else. If that makes me selfish, I guess I fit the bill. I would love to get the old me back, the one that could take on everyone's problems & do a pretty good job of making things better. Unfortunately, I think that woman is gone forever.