Definition Of Selfishness

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."
I think this proverb means that there are people out there that have less than what I have and that I shouldn't complain about what I have. I may not like the food on my plate, but I should eat it all anyways. There are kids in the streets that worry about how they are going to get food every day while I lounge around waiting for my parents to make my food for me. Some people - including myself - need to be more thankful for what we have.
I think that people are dissatisfied with themselves, their lives, and what they have because humans are jealous and greedy beings. That is how God has made us. We always want what we don't have, and once we get the thing that we wanted we …show more content…
The definition of dissatisfied is; not satisfied or pleased; discontented; the definition of selfish is; devoted to caring or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others. I believe that being selfish can lead to being to dissatisfied and vice versa. When you are selfish you want everything and don't think about others. Greedy means to be excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious. I think that selfish and greedy are more synonymous than with dissatisfied. When I am greedy, I am normally selfish too; I want the object and I will want all of it. If I don't get the item or all of the item, then I am sad and dissatisfied. That is how I think these three words are …show more content…
I have also been told that love and affection are on that list. When I go shopping with my family, my brothers and I almost always ask for something we think we need, my parents then ask us if we really need and we respond with no. We may be walking by a store with a beautiful dress in the display window and I turn to my mother and tell her that I need it even though I don't. Items that I really do need are food, water, and shelter. To tell if the object you think you need is one that you actually do need is to ask yourself, "Do I really need this?" If you can live without then you don't need the item. If you spend all your money on expensive, fancy clothes, games, toys, and makeup, then you won't have any money to spend on the