selflessness

It was not until recently, when I entered dormitory five months ago , that I understood how selfishly I had been trying to seem sophisticatedly selfless . I had always claimed I had had the aim of letting my life center around people’s interest ,thought , I now understand in every single thing I did signs of self interest could be traced with very little difficulty. It was there that I learned things I never expected to learn, but now it seems to me I learned them from the right people in the right time and the right place. It sent a shiver, not of fear but of surprise, down my spine sometime at night when I felt a pillow being delicately tucked below my head the very first night I spent in my dorms. Only to wake up and see a total stranger ,now though to my delight a close friend ,had taken it from below his own head. It was there that I learned selflessness has to start from the simplest acts you do and messages you put out , although it’s difficult to turn a blind eye on your ego as it stares you in the face.
You know if all the people of the world are selfish they all have one person who cares deeply for them but imagine a world with selfless people, there every body has as many as there are in the world caring for him more than themselves and of course more than he himself does, there it’s easy to sacrifice yourself for the others safe in the knowledge that almost everyone else will do it when need be.