The world is a cold hard world to accept.
You have to fight with a dog eat dog mentality to get anywhere.
And safe to say, there is always someone bigger, stronger, faster than you. In essence your fight in this life, at least living from this mentality is failed. You can never be number one, you can never have the safety from survival you desire. The world can change in an instant and everything we may have worked for in this life can be worthless in a flash.
That’s always putting yourself first.
But what if, you give yourself the mindset that for you… ‘we’ are one… and to live your life for the good of all in everything you do. Your enjoyment comes from us all, prospering.
You no longer compete, you are part of the solution. Now the world has a chance again from being a very cold lonely place. The mind that was wired to fight for an almost certain failure, now fights for righteous causes, uplifting the spirit and giving an extra sense of meaning and purpose to existence.
At this stage the lines between altruism and doing the absolute best thing for self are blurred. It’s not about me or you, it’s about sanity, is it not?
By doing the best thing I can for myself, I’m doing the best thing for you?