Selfish

Selfish~~concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others (according to Merriam-Webster disctionary)

Salam, yah I know I haven't posted since forever. Anyway this post is inspired by two things. One is a bad example of selfish, while the other is a more productive way to interpret selfishness.

First example; keeping certain knowledge to oneself without sharing it. Some might say there are good reasons why they won't share. For instance, he (of course this is not based on a true story. I'm making it a 'HE' so as people won't get confuse if I put something else) got a tip that the teacher is going to give an extra hard pop quiz in class tomorrow, and he won't share it cause he wants to get good mark. So he studied all night and get a good great for the quiz while the other fail.

Second example; a doctor (OK, it can be an engineer, or any other profession. It's just easier for me to use a doctor as an example) who want to be in, in every surgery or procedure or even going out on night duty. Some people see 'him' (same reason as above), as a person who tried to show off to his superior or even is selfish cause he wanted everything for himself.

So both of the mentioned example are example of selfishness. But in my point of view, I do think that the second example is a good selfishness. I mean he tried to better himself so that he can be more efficient in treating the patient. As oppose to the first example where only he, himself got the benefit. To me since the doctor selfishness help other people, I don't count that as selfish. There are other people that benefit from the doctor experience.

something to think about ain't it??