02 - "Self-interest never lies"

My father always talked to me as if I was an adult. He knew I would understand some day, that the things he told me would make sense as I got older and saw the world with my own eyes. "What motivates someone in the end", he said, "is almost always their own naked self-interest".

It may sound cynical but to me it's a form of consolation when the world seems mad. Unselfishness is a lie, no one wants to protect anyone else's interests but their own. No one will ever love you more than they love themselves so why pretend like they should?

I never do, and I know that it sometimes make me seem cold and distant but I'm not. I'm just looking out for myself, like he said I should, and it makes sense to me because he failed to do it for himself and that's what finally destroyed him.