Human beings cannot live in isolation. In a society where people live together, we come into contact with all kinds of people, things, and things every day. If you want everyone to live a better life, you cannot act selfishly. Selfishness is based on harming public interests and harming the interests of others to strengthen oneself and satisfy one's own vanity. The British proverb "Light other people's houses on fire and cook your own eggs" vividly depicts the ugliness of selfish people.
In his article "On Selfishness", Bacon used ants as a metaphor for people and made a bitter satire and mockery of selfish people. He said: "Little animals like ants are very shrewd in their own plans, but they are very harmful to a garden. Selfish people are like ants, but they harm society." Usually, selfish people are like ants, but they harm society. Self-interested people embezzle, embezzle or steal other people's property as their own property. Such people have despicable and dirty souls. No one wants to be associated with selfish people, so being an unselfish person is the key to having good popularity.
Count Tolstoy and his wife should have been the happiest. He is one of the world's most famous novelists. His two masterpieces, "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", will always shine brightly in the treasure house of human literature. They have wealth, social status and children. They both knelt down and prayed to God to make their happiness last forever. Later, a surprising change occurred. Tolstoy gradually felt ashamed of the masterpiece he had written. From then on, he devoted himself to writing pamphlets calling for peace, stopping war and eradicating poverty. He gave up all his property and lived a life of poverty.
Leo Tolstoy’s life was a tragedy, and the reason was marriage. His wife loved luxury, but he despised pomp. She sought social fame and acclaim, which in no way interested Tolstoy. She desires money and property, but he considers wealth and private property to be a sin. When he violated her will, she broke into hysterical fits, put a small bottle of opium to her lips, rolled on the floor, swore suicide, and talked of jumping into a well.
When they first got married, they were famous and happy. But 48 years later, Tolstoy couldn't bear to even look at his wife. One night, the old, broken-hearted wife knelt before her husband and begged him to read aloud to her the wonderful passages from his diary about past loves. That was the fragment he wrote about her in his diary 50 years ago. When Tolstoy reread these records of happy and beautiful times, both of them broke down in pain, and they clearly realized that those sweet days were gone forever.
Finally, the 82-year-old Tolstoy could no longer endure the misfortune at home. He left his wife on a snowy night in October 1910 and fled into the cold night. He himself didn't know where he was going. Eleven days later, he died of pneumonia at a train station. His last request before his death was that his wife not be allowed to visit him.
Later, once the tragedy of Tolstoy’s marriage was exposed, people felt sorry for him and condemned his wife. Some articles called her a despicable and ignorant woman. This is the price Countess Tolstoy paid for her selfish behavior of only caring about herself and not caring about her husband.
To put it bluntly, selfish behavior is caused by greed. Now, due to the rapid development of materials, material enjoyment has been greatly improved. How many people advocate enjoyment and pursue material life. If their material desires cannot be satisfied, they will become greedy, rob, steal, kidnap, and all kinds of viciousness emerge in endlessly. Greed is the root of evil. Greed can make people forget everything, even their own personality.
Desire is endless. While satisfying the desire, you will also lose yourself relatively, and create an illusion that wealth and status represent yourself. But when everything is lost , the spirit will be overwhelmed and helpless.
The ratio of material wealth to spiritual wealth is an eternal topic. People who have neither kind of wealth are undoubtedly very miserable. People who have a lot of material wealth but no spiritual wealth will also be very miserable. The best situation is to have material wealth that can satisfy food and clothing, and spiritual wealth that can cover the world. However, this phenomenon is too rare in real life. There is too much selfish greed. All selfish people who harm the public and enrich themselves are despicable. No matter what society or country they are in, they will be condemned by the society and despised by the public. Therefore, be more dedicated and enthusiastic, and be less failure and selfish. Only by doing so can you have good popularity.