Self-absorbia

Know what people with comfortable lives and plenty of time on their hands do often? They become self-absorbed in their own lives. Then they begin to look around, compare themselves to others and see what they are lacking in their lives. Soon, they begin to feel sorry for themselves. Then they spend their days and nights trying to figure what they could do different, to have the life they dream of.

In the time that their minds are pre-occupied with themselves, it is very easy to forget their beginnings, how some of their actions negatively affect others, the things they've taken for granted, the values that they stood for, small acts they could do to make the lives of others better and the needs of loved ones around them.

Ever so often, someone or something knocks me off my orbit in this self-absorbed universe (kudos to friends who do that!).