Sometimes you’ve just gotta take that rightfully prescribed, horrible-tasting medicine–whatever it might happen to be–inhale a deep deeeeep breath, scrunch up your face some if that helps at all…..and subsequently swallow the awful stuff down with nary a complaint; that is the right and manly (or womanly) thing to do. Let’s be one hundred percent clear here: Ya ain’t always gonna get your way in life, nor should you! You can’t always behave like a spoiled brat. You shouldn’t feel one bit self-entitled. You are not exceptional to the exclusion of everyone around you. Sometimes you’ve just got to bite down hard on the bullet and accommodate those around you. There are over six billion other denizens sharing this planet’s increasingly crowded surface as part of one leviathan humanoid family, and you’ve gotta take their welfare into consideration part of the time too. Cuz if you don’t, if you’re constantly only looking out for Number One—if you prioritize your personal interests over humanity’s on each and every occasion that not-rare conflict arises— I hereby label you with total honesty and sans one scintilla of sarcasm the most selfish, despicable, narcissistic son-of-a-bitch who ever inhabited our unique solar satellite.
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