Selflessness Revisited

Selflessness: Thinking of others' interests before one's own

Guess, there are two kinds of selfless people in this blue world of ours.
The first category being a highly conceited breed, living under the mask of selflessness. The ones at the highest pedestal of selfishness. The ones who actually act as "selfless" because of their own selfish motives, to earn the "goodwill" of people around them. Conceited to the core. The cowards.
The second. Well, do they actually exist or is it just an "ideal" case so often assumed by the academia. The ones who do put others before themselves. The ones who act in ways that completely defies conventional thinking and philosophy. The impossibles.

Come to think of it, the cowards are undesirable. Yet, their attitude is most sought after. The impossibles are not required, though having a few of them would do no harm. Their role would be the one like vultures in the ecosystem. Loathful, yet necesary. Smoothening the rough ends of a society. Preventing the undesired elements to rule the roost. Hell, do such people exist? No.


A paradox 'tis
World full of undesirables 'tis

Conceited selfless stuff
Deeds full of bluff

Caught in the boat in between
Selfless on the cream
Selfish in their spleen


Selflessness is an ideal. So is selfishness. None is bad. Their excess, though, is bad. One under the garb of the other, is evil. What is required is a balanced mix of selfless and selfish personnel in our society. What we have is people of one kind, showing off as the other kind. What we have is a disequilibrium. An unstable system. A system racing towards self-destruction. What is required is people who think what they do, and do what they think. People who 'think'. People who act on their words. People who are truthful to themselves only at least. People who are selfish and are proud to be so. People who are selfless and are proud to be so. Not the selfless conceits of the day.


Time to call
a chicken a chicken,
a fish a fish,
a bird a bird,
and this life,
a dream.