Selfishness a Virtue of Being Human

I think it was a wise sage somewhere who said that man is a social animal, well after careful consideration and thinking. I have come to the conclusion that this statement is true. Though I am thoroughly and comprehensively convinced I am not here to debate upon an accepted belief, I write this piece to shed some light on another matter. Man’s utter and complete love for himself, how he will go to great lengths to satisfy himself.

Men have claimed that their need for money was so great that they would be willing to kill for it, kill another human being to be precise. The only reason they would not was the fear of life not passion for someone elses life.
Selfishness in fact I believe is a virtue of being human, it is a human condition you see. If you are human you are selfish and being selfish ism only human. Selflessness is only a hoax a sham a mask if you like for the underliying self gratification of the person.

Recently I met a man who was a chemical engineer from a very prestigious university in India. The university is renowned, so much so that the person had got a job instantly in the US. And without thinking for more than a second he had left for it. I don’t believe he did anything wrong he was just relying on his instincts , should he stay in the country of his orgins and live life like everybody else or he could go to America and accept the highly lucrative job and live a seemingly happy life.

This man after living in the states returned to India to aid in relief work at a drought ridden area. Also convinced some of his friends, fellow college men to do the same. They say they are fulifilling some divine duty, all I can see is that these pricks want to get some attention from sacrificing their boring jobs, by the way they already made all the money they can make in the US. Yet I don’t blame the guy, he was just being human, simply a human condition.

Love, an elderly couple whom I have come to adore at a very persobal level told me, is an illusion created by the two people involved to stay attached. The girl probably wants to secure herself in a relationship and the guy probably thinks she is very attractive, they mentally psyche themselves to be attached by a mutually agreed feeling called love. Even this condition is a normal human phenomenon, yet it is borne out of the mother of all human conditions selfishness.

Would a guy love a girl if he did not get love and affection back, if he would not get any sex or any sort of support, hell no. Mind you this condition is ditto for females if not more. I don’t want to get a gender thing here. Selfishness is a human condition, Sex no bar, Caste no bar, Religion no bar, Color no bar, Financial condition no bar.

Did you here all those stories about virtuous people who are selfless and work for no gain. Well as far as I can see these kind of people are either dumb or just plain do not exist.
I know where criticism will arise, Parent child relationship. You know what the parent takes care of his child for either of two reasons, reason one society commands that they care of their children or , reason two they see a bit of themselves in their children. Either way they are being selfish. How? You ask, well here is how, if the parent keeps society’s norms in mind, he is trying to impress people around him , and maybe even impress the child, if the parent sees a bit of themselves in the child then he is doing it for something which is a part of himself.

Anyway the way I see it the only criticism which will really come up is because society has deemed being selfish Taboo, something which is blasphemous. Have you all ever considered that this virtue this human condition of being selfish is a good thing.

If man was not selfish he would never have gotten this far, achieved all this advancements. So when you think about it a little bit you can only come to one big conclusion I am right.

“Selfishness is a virtue of being human”

Something I would like to add, there maybe some people on this planet who do selfless deeds and mean to get nothing out of it. Whenever we see such people we always say that they are greater than most people, that they are angels. Well consider it, maybe they aren’t human because they are not selfish.