SELFISH DESIRES
“I know you love me, but I don’t love you like that, but can you stay friends with me. In other words, can I torture you as your heart breaks for all the ways I’m going to ignore its call for me? It’s my selfish desire.” Well, that’s some of the ways our selfish desires scream the loudest, and it isn’t that we could be mean people or just opportunists or the narcissists’ everyone on Quora describes. No, it’s that as humans, we are indeed custodians of our interests. We want to eat our Apple Crumble Bread and have it at all costs – the cost that wounds the other person that’s not us. If we asked the guilty to stand up, I could be standing tallest in the room even as I battle with the thought that I’m a good person, a very good person. So the selfish desires aren’t always intentional, but even when we catch ourselves in the act, the good feeling is too seductive to look the other way. Hence, we want to reject another human but hold them differently, so I’m saying, I don’t want you, but I
