Essay On Selfishness And Selflessness

Selfish people take and selfless people give. Selfish people make life harder for others whereas selfless people make life more enjoyable. Selfishness and selflessness are two concepts that are sometimes difficult to understand. Selfishness is actually fear based and comes from low self-esteem. Selflessness is loved based and when you contribute to someone other than yourself. They are actually more linked together than they are opposites. For example, if my dad has to go out of town for work (which he often does) then my mom can look at it as an act of selfishness and him leaving her home with all the kids. But what if he comes back more motivated to do family things because he has been away from us? Then this could be looked at as an act of selflessness rather than selfishness.
Why are people

The act of being selfless is “being concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with one’s own.” My parents are great examples of selfless people. My father even got nicknamed “Ranger Rick” because he would give the jacket off his back and roof over his head to anyone. My mother is also the same way. Just last weekend she met a homeless family of six who were finally able to purchase a one bedroom apartment. They told my mom they did not have any beds so she called my dad up, had him take apart my sister’s bunk bed, and had it delivered to their new apartment. Although she is a complete stranger to me, my biological mother was being selfless when she chose to give me up. She knew she didn’t have the resources to raise a child and she made the responsible decision to give me to an orphanage. They then cared for me temporarily until a loving family could adopt me. My parents were also being selfless when they realized that had a lot of love to give to other children that were not biologically theirs. I could not have asked for a better family to be adopted