The World Revolves Around Me and Only Me

    Picture this, you’re in a huge auditorium filled with hundreds of people and the presenter is the only one talking on the center of the stage, everyone else is sitting down while you’re the only one standing trying to find an empty seat. You think that every single person is menacingly staring at you as you cluelessly walk up and down the aisle, but the truth is nobody cares about you. Everyone in the audience is focused on what the presenter has to say, so to everyone else you are just another person in the audience. In the book “This Is Water” David Foster Wallace states, “Think about it: There is no experience you’ve had that you were not at the absolute center of.” This mindset where we put our individual self at the center of everything has become so natural to us that we experience it very often in many everyday situations, whether we’re at school walking in the hallways or going shopping at the mall we always find a way to think only about ourselves. For example, over the summer when gas prices were a lot higher than usual I honestly couldn’t care less about it because it didn’t really impact me since I didn’t have to pay for gas, but what I didn’t realize was how I was being so self-centered in this situation. 

    It’s important to set ourselves free of this self-centeredness because thinking this way is not only inconsiderate to the people around us but it also is bad for yourself. The more self-centered you become the less aware you are of your surroundings and you begin to only think negatively of yourself and of the situations you are in.