Selflessness.

Did I learn a thing or two about selflessness! I guess you never really know until you really know! Selflessness is a hard thing to grasp, especially the extent to which you are selfless. You think you’re living a good life everyday – you do good for others, treat them well and put their needs before yours most of the time. Then you learn about being selfless on a whole new level and that’s totally different to your everyday normal good deeds. How many of you can actually say you are a truly selfless person, especially when it comes to relationships?

We do things for others without expecting anything in return, but yet you also want to be treated well sometimes and you want someone to make you feel good too. To be loved is a human need is it not?

So how does this work? Do you sacrifice yourself for others all the time without wanting anything in return and don’t consider your feelings? Or do you sacrifice yourself, but consider your needs as well? I mean we all have needs don’t we? What if you never get anything in return? Or is it wrong to want something in the first place?

To what extent are you selfless? What if you become so unhappy due to your selflessness? Does selflessness have boundaries? I don’t think it does. I think it’s such a beautiful trait to have. Maybe we are scared of being completely selfless because we too have needs, which we fear will not be met.

I’m so unsure of the extent to which one can be selfless without harming yourself. Or am I just bad at balancing this act of selflessness if it can be balanced at all? Can being selfless even hurt you? This is something so interesting to think about. Maybe this is lacking in our everyday lives. It takes an emotionally intelligent person to master the act of selflessness. Do you have what it takes?