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Be Selfish!

Being rational is the only way I have been half way past my college.

Having raised a single child I had been always too gullible just to get into the good books of people around me. But during college some wonderful people came across in my life and they taught me through experience that ‘I’ comes first!

As a kid, had visited the holy place of Rishikesh with my family. We specifically went to the Divine Life Society Ashram. A religious organization my grandmother was a follower of.
As we entered there, in the main hall above the sanctum sanctorum was a huge blue board with the words, ‘BE GOOD, DO GOOD’. The philosophy propagated by the founder Swami Sivananda Saraswati.
My father pointed towards it and exclaimed; “Isn’t that a beautiful thought!”. And I nodded. Not sure if i really understood it at the moment but the vision of that hall and the board has stayed with me for life.

Years after this when today I picked up my phone to seek help from my friend for a fight between rational me and emotional me; He told me ‘I should not tell you this. You are the most rational girl I have known, Be selfish!’

And the words kept ringing in my ears, ‘Be selfish’. A phrase which has lost its negative touch in today’s rational world. And so being of today’s era I googled the phrase. Result was a bunch of articles and videos all throwing this quality as inevitable, but the top 2 search results just reaffirm my point of it being a rather positive phrase. The first link was of wikiHow : 5 steps on How to be selfish. And the second result was an article titled ‘Why it can be selfless to be selfish’.

Period. Selfishness is a desired quality these days.

But then what about that big hall and the blue board???

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