Why Selfishness?

Why are people so selfish and needy? Why do they always think everything is about themselves? Why is it so hard for people to think logically about things before they go and complain or ask for help. I'm all for helping people, don't get me wrong. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. Maybe today I just can't handle people who insist on things being about them. Even if they are hypocrites. Maybe I'm in a good mood and I'm just tired of people. I'm always tired of people. Almost always. The one thing that I'm sure people will always be capable of is being bothersome, annoying, & selfish. Even I'm doing it now, I'm being selfish wanting people to stop being selfish. Oh, well. I need to vent.

However, unlike most people I am going to logically think this through:

What exactly is is selfishness? Well. Webster says: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself. That makes sense. Now for my question: Why? Why are people selfish? You know, I think half the time people don't even realize when they're being selfish. They just are. It's human nature to want more than others. But you aren't supposed to. No, that's incorrect. You shouldn't. You shouldn't want more than others. You should focus on pure happiness. Pure pleasure without any competition against your neighbor. So people are going to be selfish. You are going to be selfish. And I guess you've got to deal with it. There are a lot of things you've got to deal with though. It would be cool if you could just chose one each day and that would be your one thing that you would have to deal with that day. However that would completely make one of my first blogs irrelevant. With the whole good days and bad days thing. Then there would be no possibility for a perfect day because you would have to deal with something each day. I don't know. I think that a lot "I don't know". But really I don't. Oh, well. You are never expected to know everything.