SELFISHNESS IS THY GOD.

Once upon a tome, the inconsistency of this world used to astonish me. As I grew up, I allowed my imagination to accept that this world is a happy place. It is what one believes it to be and I pushed my belief into every dimension that the word 'optimism' might have ever known! But thought is always evolving. Trying to put my ideas in sync with the reality, I have come to justifying everything that goes on around in the human zone with the word 'selfishness'.
It's true that this raises a plethora of doubts because selfishness is always seen with a negative connotation. But isn't the 'self' the highest form of our existence? Isn't it the self that we partially feel and through which we establish a connection with others? If yes, then, it isn't negative.
We are all creatures driven by needs. We want air to breathe, we want food because hunger presses us, we want water because we feel thirst, we work because we need money. Think of anything And you will be able to justify its occurence with a need.
If everything can be justified with just one word and that too out of all, 'selfishness', then what is selflessness?! Does it really exist? And if I say yes, am I not contradicting myself? Well, No. it goes around like this. The only aspect of live where we see the co-existence, rather dissolution of the two opposites is love. Love is selfish. We love because we find a happiness in it. We love because it makes us feel alive. We sacrifice for the one we love because we want to see the other happy. In love, we tie our happiness to that of someone else and it is in creating happiness for him/ her that we connect with our own happiness. So, love in its highest form is selfish. And it is this highest form of love that i call 'selflessness'. And that's its beauty. It amalgamates two opposites in perfect harmony where we see neither, we see both.