You Are Not A Good Person

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     We are all selfish people. No you are not any different. Sometimes I think that I have some sort of good in me, but once I analyze it, just like if I were to analyze all of your intentions, they really are solely for the good of me in the long run. It may be minutely to please or help an individual at that time, but eventually, the act or thought was selfish.

     When you get up for an elderly person on the bus in order for them to have a seat in close proximity to the door. When you hold the door open behind you for the person trailing three steps in the distance.  When you loan your friend a dollar at McDonald’s because they forgot their wallet. All these things may seem selfless, but under the microscope you only do them because you don’t want the repercussions of others whispering about you behind your back calling you a jerk for not being a good Samaritan.

     I came to college for myself. I plan to graduate and obtain a decent paying job for myself. I work for myself. I drink this cherry Pepsi because I want to. I may do things that seem unselfish, such as dream to buy my mother a mansion at wherever beach her little heart desires, but the amount of unselfish things that I do in my life cannot even begin to add up to this purchase.

     Even those who appear to be the most considerate people are subconsciously performing these acts because of the way it makes them feel inside and how they will be remembered and thought of as to their peers. I’m not suggesting we are all internally evil, but we are most certainly not saints. I guess we just aren’t as noble as our obituaries make us out to be.