I asked my son "Hey, do you think about yourself all the time?"
He thought for a few seconds and answered "Yeah, pretty much. I know I should be thinking of others and all that but I can't help it, I just think of me. Me, me, me."
I want to be a teenager again.
Me.
Me.
Me.
I think it is worth all the angst and pimples.
Me.
Ciao
LC
Me time? It is rare that I think about me. It is a collective me, taking in everything around me, work, house, and such. Teenager again? Only if I could have the poise and knowledge gained over a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteRJ: Unfortunately if you had all that poise and knowledge gained over the years you could not really embrace the angst and ego that only goes with being a teenager.
ReplyDeletenoooooo, i shudder at the thought of being a teenager. i would like to be an independently wealthly adult with great health, great friends and terrific sleep every single night
ReplyDeleteThe Author Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) promoted the idea of being 'selfish' and only be concerned with your stake in the world and proposed that society was better served when ones own personal interests were paramount and not the well being of others. The old I get, the more I think she was right.
ReplyDeleteIHTW: Ha, if you had all that, well, you could live like a teenager.
ReplyDeleteBruce: I have read Fountainhead (and watched the movie). I wonder if selfish is as bad as people make out. Sometimes people resent acting at being unselfish because it is often foisted upon us via guilt tactics and media influence.
I believe that some people are naturally unselfish. The rest just pretend to be.
Selfish has its merits.
Being selfish does have merit, I agree. How can one become more accomplished, stronger, faster, learn to write, or draw, or paint, or sing or learn to do all the many things life has to offer if not to do it all for one's self. The world will be better because of it.
ReplyDeleteI like Weight's idea. That sounds like heaven.
ReplyDeleteI keep waiting for you to blog about your houseguests. How did it go?
Perhaps it was too terrifying and horrible to even blog about, and just best forgotten?
I love the self indulgence of teenagers. The world is always wonderful, or coming to an end. Nobody else matters but theselves...
ReplyDeleteGod I miss those day!
RJ: As long as people use their selfishness for things that are good (sounds like a super hero thing).
ReplyDeleteTopiary: I do have more to blog about the visitors. I think I am still traumatised by the intrusion. Plus something happened on the second day that kind of put a pall over the whole thing.
Olivia: I never got the have those days because I was busy growing up too quickly. I think that is why I am happy for my son to have them.
Oh dear. Scary pall of visitors. Can't wait for the blog!
ReplyDeleteTopiary: On its way soon.
ReplyDeleteI think about myself way too much. Maybe I would have fewer issues if I thought about myself less. Or maybe if I thought about myself differently. Hmm, not sure.
ReplyDeleteHarriet: You might need to think more like a teenager and be a bit more selfish. A bit more into your success and less into your failures.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait ! ! !
ReplyDeleteStarting to get scared already...