[cause I'm halfway gone]

[lawliet_kun]

I've just had a thought, inspired partly by pspgm's latest post, and partly by my own weird psychological/spiritual/religious musings of late. I have a question I'd like y'all to answer, and if not out loud, at least to think about. I have my own thoughts about what the answers to this question mean about people, but I'd just like y'all to give this a

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[pspgm]

When I'm musing on what a lame human being I am and despairing over how I need to improve my inner self, the first thing that usually comes up from the depths of my conscience is "Jesus H. Christ would you get over yourself."

I'm a self-centered person. I internalize my faults. I angst over them. I go over everything I say before and after I say it and hope I don't sound like a dick and often fail. I monopolize conversation, I am truly convinced I'm a well-rounded, interesting person, I feel like I deserve good things that come to me.

I need to get over myself. Half my stupid petty problems wouldn't mean anything if I would take five minutes from thinking about how they affect me and think more about the people I love, the people I know who have it worse than I do, the people who deserve a good thing coming a thousand times more than I do. I feel like I could be a better person if I thought less about myself and more about the people around me, the people I love the most