Self and Self-less

I was getting bored so thought giving some work to my brain.

Is it possible to remain friendly and self-centered? I was watching a movie yesterday in which Paul Newman as Hud who was so self-centered, reluctant and unprincipled man looses all of his friends because of his battered attitude. Is it worth loosing everything around just for self? This was the same question a business school dean asked for its outgoing graduates! Is it worth loosing everything around just for self?

The answer although varies from individual to individual, I think like vocabulary will remain same. That is where leadership quality shall be recognised. The quality of forgetting about self and giving the service with out expecting the returns. If all of us have equal proportion of this quality, we can remain friendly as well as self-centered.

But, being a component of this hierarchical society we always tend to do wrong things than right, aren't we? Starting from school to university , the properties of self centric nature has been deeply printed in each of our body organs.

With all these things going on in my mind, my outer voice appreciated "Keep up the thought provoking process, buddy". Suddenly I could hear giggling sound from inside. Cautiously I peeped inside, my inner voice was sitting with deprecating smile of high esteem.