Through writing, I sense I'm motivated to explore and invite people to reflect on cultural ideas of selfishness. It's fine to believe you aren't a selfish person yet, if you're not well-acquainted with yourself, your beliefs and ignorance, you may be deluding yourself. Closer examination would require you to define your view of selfish, and with respect to whom. You may not yet even be aware of what you're giving up, for whom or why. Would that matter?

Writing is a vehicle you can use to discover whether you're concerned primarily with your own interests, benefits, and welfare or, whether you sacrifice yourself, your dreams and priorities, even completely, for others, maybe without realizing it. Your ultimate sacrifice is defined by what you deem is required to make you a better person. Reading your expressed thoughts may lead you to become more tolerant, more compassionate and less self-serving, but does it make you feel wiser or better? Would making choices in your interest, that develop or heal you, always be wrong?

Perhaps experiencing true love enables you to assess the underlying reasons for surrender. As you decide what you're willing to do to change the reality of your life, you also reframe desirable goals or claims. Love has the power to draw your attention to your beliefs, and makes it okay to recognize flaws in what you previously thought was important. You realize its okay to let go of limiting beliefs, to become more receptive to uncertainty and new experiences.

Writing is like a window into yourself through which you can peer and recognize the folly of your illusions, and learn to laugh at yourself and your perspectives. Only clarity created by self-love will enable you to discern who you always have been and what characterizes who you are. If you're fortunate to know anyone who encourages you to face your fears, to embace your talents, and who supports you through uncertainty, then writing serves as an added bonus to encourage you to be more open with yourself. Mortality also reminds us to make the most of limited time.