Me me me!

I have been thinking lately how working on improving ourselves can be either selfish or unselfish. On one hand, we are focused on me me me. Everything is about me and my mind and my emotions and my needs and how my world could or should be a better place. On the other side of the coin is the desire to be better for others. I want to make my significant other happy, I want to be a person that my brother wants to be around, I want to be stronger so that I can set a good example for the children in my life.

It is my belief that both sides of the coin are in play. We probably should not want to change/grow ONLY for the sake of other people, from experience I know that wrapping our own happiness up in someone else is not sustainable. At the same time, I think that it is dangerous to think only of ourselves.



We often see ourselves as the center of the world, we think everything revolves around us. We interpret what others see, do, or say by means of how it affects us. Sometimes we try to lesson these outside distractions, we try to turn internal and not let others throw us off our game by feeling like what they said or did had anything to do with us. This is a good practice especially since often we have no idea what is going on in the mind or heart of the other person.

However, from my experience of being human... even though I try to not let other people affect me, they often do. And although I wander through the world not thinking that my attitude on any given day has any impact on others, it often does. If we were to have a little consideration for one another, would our jobs not be easier?!

I often think of a quote that my teacher Molly Lannon Kenny uses with her Yoga and Social Change tour:
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." ~Aboriginal Activists Group



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