#be selfish

[lycoric3]

You know what's so bitter about Yoohyun leaving Yoojin in order to protect him? The fact that he never really understood the social implications of it.

We know that Han Yoohyun doesn't care for social cues, laws and regulations, all mannerisms and behaviour towards people are done simply to please his brother. And so- he doesn't realise that by denouncing Yoojin, as a highly praised and popular S-class, he has condemned him in society. Yoohyun leaves as soon as he can, publicly announces that he's a burden, and the media is having a field day where Yoojin is made a villain.

Unfortunately, it's only made worse by Yoojin's lost desperation to find out why his brother, his child, who he has raised all his life has left him behind. Has spit in his face and is so cold, and that maybe Yoojin has failed him all this time. His desperation in trying to get to talk to Yoohyun at least once, to give him a birthday cake, to awaken so that maybe he can reach him. It only ends up adding to this manic, ungrateful and spiteful image that the world views him as.

Yoojin is condemned by society. Yoohyun gets mad that he's a hunter but Yoojin has no other option. He can't get a regular job because his reputation has been dragged through the mud and because the constant public attention is too burdensome for any employers. Seok Simyeong has constantly berated Yoojin, fucking up his mental state and as the 'spokesperson' of Yoohyun, Yoojin must think its true.

Yoohyun tries to protect him from hunters through this instinctual thought of predators and prey, but society is far too nuanced and he doesn't understand. By trying to leave him out of the dungeons, he left him to the world.

Oh Han Yoohyun, you've doomed him.

[feministfang]

My love and respect for Taylor Swift increases day by day because of how selfishly she focuses on her career, ignoring the entire world. I love how her jobless loser haters are always offended by her never using her platform to speak up for world's atrocities. She alone built this platform and worked hard to get her reputation back. She is successful on her own, and so only she gets to decide what to do with it and how to use it. I absolutely admire her for her silence because the queen knows she doesn’t owe anyone anything and doesn’t have to sacrifice her fanbase for the sake of other people. And besides, she is not anyone's political puppet. She is rich and prospering and that’s the only thing she should care about as a woman. All the world problems are for the men to fix. I love you, Taylor! 🫶🏼❤️

And also, if i see anybody barking on her or any other successful woman for being selfish or evil, i will fight you for them. I love it when women don’t care about anybody except for themselves because so do i 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

[blabbershere]

You will either be the villain in someone else's story for standing up for yourself — or a fool in yours if you don't. Pick your poison.

— Samira Vivette

[supremeromanticizer]

Your self worth is not tied to your productivity.

[starlightsuffered]

Be Selfish

Info - incubus Timothée, Angel/deity reader, AU, angsty, mentions of sex, unrequited love

His gorgeous chest rose and fell beautifully after our coitus. I loved him in these moments. Precious moments where he looked satiated and heathy. He looked satisfied and fulfilled and a smile often played over his delicate lips.

I reached out and touched his slightly damp clavicle. He was shimmering with sweat from our actions. He took my hand and removed it. I frowned. He began to explain.

The longer he spoke the more upset I got. I wanted to tear my clothes. My vision was blurred with tears. I was having trouble sucking in the air I needed.

“That’s why I can’t see you anymore?” He said softly.

I screamed.

My scream could have made the most villainous drop to their knees and beg those they’d wronged to forgive them. It could have made the most pure of heart kill thousands. My scream was an eldritch horror all in its own. My scream was utter pain and loss. I was angry and confused all at the same moment.

“I don’t understand,” I gasped as I sobbed. I crawled my way across the ground towards him. My nails broke and caked themselves with dirt. “I-I have given you everything you’ve ever wanted. I was the best I could be fore you.”

I was not the most pure deity, nor the most beautiful, or the most favoured. I knew that I was on the pure side. I knew I had some talents and abilities, some worth.

I knew that he was an Inn incubus. He fed off sexual energy. He too was not the strongest incubi. He was not the Lord or ruler, in fact he didn’t even consider himself that talented. He was used to having to use conniving, persuasion, and dark temptation to feed off another for sex.

All those things he’d had to bargain for; all that he’d had to strive for, everything he was used to not getting - I had given freely. I had seen him and leaned more to him than any responsibility I’d ever had. No prayer, no mortal, no reward, no job, nothing had ever drawn me like he had. He had never even used his powers on me. I had simply fallen.

Did he not believe me? I had let him feed whenever he needed. I desperately wanted to help him and care for him. He could take my energy. He could have my life force. Why didn’t he want to just take? If he thrived off my sexual desire, then he would be well fed in my presence. No one had ever made me feel this way.

WHY WOULDNT HE JUST TAKE FROM ME? I FREELY GAVE! WAS I NOT ENOUGH?

“Be selfish,” I whispered.

“Huh?”

“You may not feel the way I do, but be selfish. Care not about what is good for me. Never mind how my feelings will be affected, just let me be yours. Let me be the only one you fed from. I promise I will be a good force. You needn’t care about me. Just let me be the only one. You can drain me of everything. Just be selfish.”

“I can’t do that,” he murmured. He looked down at me. He studied my tear tracks. He surveyed the body he’d touched and used so many times. He gulped down his own emotions and looked at the sky.

“I have begun to care for you deeply. I care for your future. I care for your well-being. I care for your happiness. You are the first being I have ever felt like this for. I cannot feed off you when I feel this way for you. I shan’t be selfish and drain you. I would not want to force you into a life of being my only source where you cannot have what you want. I care for you.”

“If you care for me then stay,” I said in a broken voice.

“I can’t darling. I can’t be what you want. As we have joined I’ve seen what your heart desires and I can’t be that. I can’t be yours. I am sorry,” he sighed.

“Please!” I wailed as he disappeared. He left me there to sob, to shriek, to plead, to waste away. I would have rather have wasted away with him using me to have what he needed. I’d rather company even if that company drained me. I didn’t want to be alone. If only he could be selfish.

@pmak2002 @softhecreator @plutoispurplw @sp1deyyf4ngz @seungcheol17daddy @jesschalamet @vvsdreaming

[diabolicalwhores]

Nonexistent .

[greeneyed-jade]

PSA:

You cannot put everyone on. You will drown trying to rescue the people who were never taught to swim.

[extratragic]

BOWEN WHY DIDNT YOU SHOOT THE PUCK

[plutos-satellite]

please, i beg you, for at least once in your life: be selfish.

[rantithesis]

I wish people (women) would treat a romantic relationship like the massive lifestyle choice it is. You’re not being shallow or selfish for rejecting anyone and everyone who isn’t compatible for any reason. Especially if you’re partnering with a man, it’s better to be alone than it is to have an unfit partner. Emotions can only carry you so far when you’re talking about someone you’re going to live with, care for, and possibly legally and financially tie yourself to for the rest of your life

[womanborntotheendoftheworld]

the person who directs the movie as he wishes is the lead, the person who directs the lead role is the director.

[intuitive-wanderess]

Give from an overflowing cup, that way it always feels inspiring and never draining.

If it feels like effort to give or it feels draining, then you’re not giving from an overflowing cup.

In that case, I’d suggest giving to yourself.

[blabbershere]

I gaze around, striving to fathom each soul,

To see the reasons behind the ways they’ve hurt me whole,

Yet not a whisper of understanding, no reflection or return,

As I stand alone, with empathy that no one will learn

Just to be called naive in return.

—Ruth Winter / Naive

[supremeromanticizer]

Goodnight.

[blueyisszy]

If you are not selfish you will not be unselfish, remember.

If in the world everybody is taught to be selfish, the whole world will be happy. There will be no possibility for misery.

Only a very deeply selfish person can be unselfish.

But this has to be understood because it looks like a paradox.

What is the meaning of being selfish?

The first basic thing is to be self-centered. The second basic thing is always to look for one’s blissfulness. If you are self-centered, you will be selfish whatsoever you do.

You may go and serve people but you will do it only because you enjoy it, because you love doing it, you feel happy and blissful doing it—you feel yourself doing it. You are not doing any duty; you are not serving humanity. You are not a great martyr; you are not sacrificing. These are all nonsensical terms. You are simply being happy in your own way—it feels good to you.

You go to the hospital and serve the ill people there, or you go to the poor and serve them, but you love it. It is how you grow. Deep down you feel blissful and silent, happy about yourself.

A self-centered person is always seeking his happiness. And this is the beauty of it, that the more you seek your happiness the more you will help others to be happy Because that is the only way to be happy in the world.

If everybody else around you is unhappy, you cannot be happy, because man is not an island. He is part of the vast continent. If you want to be happy, you will have to help others who surround you to be happy. Then—and only then—can you be happy. You have to create the atmosphere of happiness around you.

If everybody is miserable, how can you be happy? You will be affected. You are not a stone, you are a very delicate being, very sensitive. If everybody is miserable around you, their misery will affect you. Misery is as infectious as any disease. Blissfulness is also infectious as any disease.

If you help others to be happy, in the end you help yourself to be happy. A person who is deeply interested in his happiness is always interested in others’ happiness also—but not for them. Deep down he is interested in himself, that’s why he helps.

If in the world everybody is taught to be selfish, the whole world will be happy. There will be no possibility for misery. Teach everybody to be selfish—unselfishness grows out of it.

-Osho

[marionsinspirations]

Remember, a woman must be selfish in a relationship.

If you put your own happiness first, you'll do whatever it takes to make it last, right?

You will cherish your relationship.