Selfishness is as ugly as jealousy

I can NOT, for the life of me...figure out how people get along in life being so damn self-centered and selfish. While I understand that many people are only children and what not (I went to school with a lot of people like this) that excuse only takes you so far. At some point you've got to grow up and realize a few things. 1) Everything ain't about you, 2) the world that everyone else lives in doesn't revolve around you 3) being selfish isn't cute or Christian. Realizing these simple truths will take you far.

I remember the day that I learned that the world didn't actually orbit around ME. It was right before I went to college and my mom gave me a real talk. She was real with me. Yes, I'd been spoiled my ENTIRE life. Yes, I pretty much got my way all of the time and YES all that was coming to an end. Because my mother loved me, she realized that I would not ever become the woman that she was raising me to be if I continued to live in this fantasy world. It's not like I changed overnight. It took years to get to the point of not being as selfish as I was in the past. Am i perfect? HECK NO! But I am constantly working to be a better person and it sucks to realize that not everyone does this. So now it actually makes me sick to my stomach to deal with people who are so stuck on themselves that doing something for someone else is an annoyance, burden, or just something they can't do without complaining . As a friend, I've pointed this characteristic out in relationships that were meaningful to me. Everyone else has been pretty much cut. No one wants to deal with that type of person. I don't know if being just being oblivious or not really caring, but it clearly takes a special person to carry on a life like this.

Time for some housekeeping....le sigh.