Be Selfish

If you do things that you do not enjoy, eventually you will stop doing it, won't you?

The exception is your form of employment; we'll suffer many slings and arrows and derive no real sense of joy or satisfaction in what we do. And we do it in exchange for the paycheck.
The paycheck becomes the means to do what we want to do. The means to be selfish.

So people who do what they love for a living are the epitome of selfish. They are doing it to satisfy themselves. Someone will argue a caregiver is aiding their fellow man first and then perhaps themselves, but no - they enjoy helping. That act is enough to release the endorphins.

If you are a writer, write. A musician, play. And find a way to secure income from it.
BE SELFISH.

The connotation is a negative, but if done with joy and passion it actually becomes a most empowering thing.
The next thing you know you are passing your joy to another aspiring musician, or sharing a shoulder with one who needs it or making hearts soar...SOAR with your words in your book. Inspiring people with your acting.
How is that a negative thing?

A teacher, a good teacher loves to light a fire under his or her charges. If they can ignite the spark of learning, the profound and deep joy must be almost overwhelming...or maybe it's just me?
A writer expressing ideas and sharing feelings, an artist putting their own emotions on canvas or in a sculpture, a very selfish act.

Love is a selfish act, you do it to please yourself first.
It seems all the best things begin when you think of yourself first. With PASSION and JOY. An honest love of what you do. Selfishness without the two is evil and self defeating.

So how did the word come to be seen this way?
Sinister - it means left hand, nothing else...it became the Left Hand of God...ah, that is a bad thing.

Language, be it music or words or mathematics is ever evolving and without knowing the beginnings we lose perspective on the present. The future falls from our hands.

Lets all be selfish! Do random acts of selfishness!