Many years ago my teacher a.k.a my mentor played a riddle on the students – “who is the most selfish person in the world?” The answer is “fishmonger” because he sells fish. Now this a lame joke to get the topic started.

Is there no one who is not selfish in this world? I barely believe there’s any who’s totally selfless if you ask me. There are many who deny they are not so and even if they were, they have their good reasons. Excuse~!! I would say… Why can’t a person just admit honestly but instead cover up the selfish with lots of rubbish excuse.

Everything started with own personal interest, from the very simple excuse to survive to the worst one – greed. Man always love to put themselves in the center regardless the severity of ego. When they have problem, they tend to think theirs is the worst that there can be; When they have needs and wants, they regard theirs is the ultimate as compared to others; When they have greed, they feel it’s alright because it’s human nature.

Eventually we see people throw away their conscience and fill it up with bunch of rubbish excuses that they make themselves right once more. We see people argue with people, hurting one another, blaming each other, and nevertheless, they are always on the right side. Despite guilt they felt, they ignore it by going louder and angrier. Children against parents, siblings against siblings, friends against friends and sadly, all turn enemies where cronyism, defaming, blaming, etc. grow sounder and ended with war.

So, how many would say they are selfless to anyone in their life? If I ask this to the public, I believe I will see people keeping their heads low or look around for others to raise their hands, or… maybe start questioning me back emotionally who am I to ask this question. Well, that’s solely my imagination and let it be so. So, never sound like you’re just and mocking others when you feel others being selfish BUT reflect yourself and ask “have you done any better?”

Despite these, there’s always hope and the cure to selfish is love, something God implanted in every man but giving us the freedom to activate or deactivate it. With love, conscience can never be thrown away, greed can never live, selfish can never exists, and peace shall be surrounding. But this probably won’t happen on earth. So, “repent, repent, why perish?” as mentioned by a pastor.