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Selfishness is not a path to liberation from pain.
If your behavior is causing harm it is not a path to happiness.
What is the right action? Does it include the welfare of all including yourself?
Or does it include only you?
Wear it like a badge of honor!
You’ve earned your right to be selfish!
Just look at those scars!
But hey,
Is your selfishness making you whole?
Happy?
What does it feel like?
Does it feel right?
Are you tuning in?
Or smashing your selfish way to misery?
There should be another word for healing.
Applying the word “selfish” to a wound does not promote renewal.
Tune in to you and what your actions are producing,
Then look around and watch the reverberation.
Walter Kitty's Diary 
I agree; if you’re causing pain to yourself or others around you, then you aren’t on the best path possible! Well-thoughout post and all your points are on point:))
Thank you. It’s so easy to be lead astray. We know we need to heal from something and don’t always know how to go about doing it. Usually one hears “I need to be selfish right now.” As though that will do the job – but that is an abstract thought in the mind. One that hasn’t been thought out by most.
I believe we do need to love ourselves before we can understand how to love others but this is a process of moving outwards. Selfishness is a process of moving inwards and staying inside, cocooning our pain without the transformation of growing wings. Sometimes we do need solitude to lick our wounds and heal but always with the thought that we can then return to the world and share our experience…