This document discusses the importance of being selfish and taking time for yourself. It argues that people spend so much of their lives playing various roles like parent, spouse, employee, that their true selves get lost. It encourages taking even just 5 minutes a day to stop and listen to your soul to understand your real purpose and who you are meant to be, rather than just the roles you play. Finding your purpose is as simple as imagining your last breath and what would make you want to come back to life. Being selfish and prioritizing discovering your purpose is doing yourself a favor.

1. Be Selfish
You owe it to yourself

2. The players in heaven have stopped
their roles play for a minute. The
Sun is not yet out and air is
breathing low. Birds are all in their
nest, silent, and earth moist and
sleepy. It is still, very still.
No movement in sky. Life seems to
look out of window with dreamy
eyes. It is the time to stop. When
better to stop, when the universe
around you has stopped for a
heartbeat to take a breath.

3. In years, so far, we have played so many roles. Of a
son, a husband, a father, or a daughter, wife,
mother. We have played an employee, be it front
line executive, a team leader, a manager or a CEO.
In all the roles, we have put in our heart, mind and
soul. We have played it to such perfection that
down the line, we have identified ourselves as the
protagonist of the roles played.

4. In these din a bustle,
us the real us has
slipped up
somewhere. The
”One” that is
untouched by the
roles played. The
“One” that is not an
employee, or a
husband or even a
friend. The “One”,
who has not yet lived
or breathe fully the
fresh air.
It is a small bud, waiting for little more oxygen and sunlight to bloom. But
how can it ever grow, when it has never been noticed? Let us take a moment,
and just stop, stop for a second, playing the roles that we play. When was the
day, we actually stopped and thought about ourselves and what we really
want.

5. Every life that is on this
earth has a purpose.
Most part of our lives
goes away, playing
different roles. Where
have we lived? Living is,
knowing what your
purpose is and trying to
achieve it.
Purpose, is such an overrated word.
Purpose is simple, a call of the soul,
complex by language, understood by
feeling. One need not sit under a Bodhi
tree to know the purpose of life. It is
simple an answer to the question,
“What would bring us back from our
last breath”.

6. “Close your eyes, and take yourself to the last breath of your life. Now, leave
all other thoughts behind. Pick up one thing, which you think will pull you
back to the world of living. You got it, great. Now after some day, in some
other time, try it again. Did you get the same thought? Or now it looks little
distant?

7. You want to close the chapter of life
with a pleasant feel and thought.
Imagine, yourself being with
someone or doing what you always
wanted to do. Close your eyes and
savor every moment of it. This is
your last chance, your last breath.
How do you feel?
Do you feel coming back to life or
fighting for one more breathe
because it is all so worth it. Would
Let us do it again. Your eyes are watery,
you fight for one more breath to
senses dim, and breath is labored. You
live the life that you are
can feel the heaviness in your limbs. The
experiencing now? Now, try and
heaviness has turned into dim numbness
replace it with something else. Do
and now you can no longer feel life in
you still feel the same? What was
your limbs. You know, it is your last
it, which could bring you back from
breath.
death? “

8. Try it again, some other day. Do you
still find the same result? If in every
mood, result is same, that is the
purpose. It is not easy, it is no rocket
science.
It takes years or months or even days or
hours to get it, provided, we are looking
for it. The first option may be the passion,
not purpose. Realization of what can
bring one back to life is his/her purpose.

9. Every soul on the planet has come with
a purpose. This purpose is yearning of
the soul. It is what the soul craves for,
but its silent voice can hardly be heard
over the theatrical orchestra of the
characters we play. Our soul whispers us
our purpose. Realize it. Oft our life goes
in living. We do not stop for a moment
to think, what we really want. What is
that our soul cries for?
We do not realize our purpose. How so ever big or small it may be, it is ours to find
and to fulfill. Our purpose is what we are. That is what we are to be. So lets us do
ourselves a favor and stop playing roles for some time and find out what/who we
actually are meant to be.
Let us be selfish for at least 5 minutes a day, and listen to our soul and try to be
what we are to suppose to be.

10. Let us be Selfish … we owe it to ourselves