3 Reasons to Be More Self-Centered
As a whole we spend way too much time worrying about things out of our control, and way too little time affecting things that are under our control. We are too informed about things that are irrelevant in our daily life and remain blind to things that affect us constantly. I’m not saying we should stop caring about others, or politics or the world as a whole. I am saying if we all spent more time taking care of our little words than we did worrying about the big world…. the big world’s problems would decrease significantly, and if we watched what we did more than what other people did we might end up liking our lives a lot better.
Worrying about the world, is really just another way of escaping your life.
Escapism can be sneaky, it doesn’t feel like escapism. Sometimes it feels weirdly like productivity. You can waste hours and hours judging someones else’s life or trying to wrap your mind around a political climate… and the reality is… at the end of the hours all you’ve accomplished, is losing those hours. Set enough time aside to be informed, to know who to vote for or which rallies or protests to attend, where to donate time and money when you have it… and then… let it be. There isn’t anything else you can do anyway, unless you have political aspirations yourself… in which case that’s a whole different scenario.
It really doesn’t get you anywhere, or fix anything to just keep focusing all your attention on all these things that you have basically no control over.
So, Let. It. Go.
We are the protagonists in the movies of our lives’, We are side characters in the movies of our acquaintances’ lives, and we are next to nothing in the movie of the world as a whole.
There is this idea I’ve heard going around that we’re all so selfish, well thing we’re the main character when in reality we’re side characters. And, I agree. We can be selfish at times, especially in our actions. But I disagree that we aren’t the main character. Everybody sees things differently…. even the person who seems identical to you in personality and lifestyle. Reality is made up of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Literally the only one of these things that could potentially be similar between two people is actions. Which means we all live in our own worlds regardless of how selfish or selfless we are, therefore we all are the main character in our movies, worlds, and realities.
If we’re the main character in our own movies, and just extras in every other movie…. doesn’t it make sense that our own movie should be the one we focus on the most… When we get our character right there, then we’re a lot more likely to move up from extra, to potentially influential side character in all the other movies we make an appearance in.
Small real changes have a bigger impact, than shouted ideals.
You can sit and yell about how much a wall should be built, how it needs to be built, the ways to build it. And if your voice is loud people will here you…. so maybe you might get somewhere, but probably not.
Or, you can start building, brick by brick…. until it’s big enough for everyone to see and tall enough to stop anyone from stepping over it.
Someone who lives what they’re speaking will always be heard much more clearly than someone who doesn’t.
When you see a change you want in the world…. apply it to your world. Apply it to the things you have control over you. If it really makes a difference the people around you will notice, and then just maybe they’ll be the same… and who knows maybe one day because you sharpened your focus to you, you actually will change the world in some way.
