The art of being selfish
Those Victorians have a lot to answer for. Their determination that every member of society should walk the 'straight and narrow path' (while a noble attempt to raise us all to the moral high ground) has left most of us in the western world with a damaged psyche. Strong words, I know. After all, why shouldn't we have higher morals and strive for a better world? Well, of course we should. But not at the expense of our own selves. More than a hundred years after Queen Victoria died, we still feel guilty if we put ourselves ahead of others. I'm here to tell you right here and now that this guilt is CRAP. Yes, I just swore. That's how strongly I feel about this. We can't look after others if we don't first look after ourselves. We can't give strength to others, if we aren't first strong in ourselves. You can't give financial aid to others, unless we first pay our own bills. And we can't teach our children how to be whole, confident, ...