We spend most of our lives in front of a mirror. We only see ourselves, we are totally self-engrossed, we can't help thinking of ourselves...all the time. Carlos Castaneda said: "You take yourself too seriously." Is this what we really do? Why? Our human nature leads us towards self-preservation, towards the acquisition of happiness, towards experiencing pleasure and avoiding pain. All this is right, fair, natural. It's only when we forget the needs of others, or when we expect others to live in order to fulfill our needs that we become "selfish". Mirror, mirror on the wall.... We want to be told that we are the most beautiful, the smartest, the most admired of all. We have this irresistible desire to be "the most" something in order to feel reassured that we count, that we are important, that the world wouldn't be the same without us. And, in fact, it wouldn' be the same, because we DO count, we Do have importance, our presence here IS necessary. But not to the extent of making us believe that we are the center of the universe.
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