Is Your Selflessness a Disguise?

Most of us would define a selfish person as someone who has no consideration for other people’s needs or feelings and who acts only in his or her own best interests. We despise these so-called selfish people for how unimportant, unseen, and unloved they make us feel. In our frustration we may even go so far as to call them narcissists or egotistical assholes.

Today what I want to talk about is a different type of selfish person. Truth be told, you would likely not call this person selfish at all. This is because this person comes dressed in the very clever disguise of a selfless person. As a matter of fact, this disguise is so clever that even the person wearing it is fooled. So how can we distinguish between someone who is actually selfless and someone who is wearing this disguise? And worst of all, horror of horrors, what if... WE are that person?