Recently I have noticed a common theme that annoys me a l o t. Selfishness. In the past week selfishness has been so prominent with brexit. And ever since last Friday I see that trait more clearly than ever before.

To quote Lauren Taylor (look at thumbnail for the tweet. thanks gel) But it’s true. Old people that voted leave are selfish!! I don’t care what you say they fucking are. They have ruined our present and future and you literally can’t deny it.

I was talking to my grandad and he lives in an old peoples home and he always tells stories of these old people who have lived around him for 2 years and he hasn’t actually spoken to them cos they don’t leave their house. There are some people who sit inside all day and just watch the old people’s home world go by and do not interact with the outside world yet they judge it and have their say on it. Now to say someone like that deserves to vote is unfair.
How can it be fair that someone who LITERALLY only leaves their house for the supermarket and to vote apparently can vote and I can’t when I have so many external links to the political world. People our age sign countless petitions. Attend political meetings, start political movements and study politics. Yet this old person can sit in their home and leave every few years to vote on OUR future. NOT FAIR!!!!

There are times when selfishness can be good. Because obviously everyone has to be selfish. Selfless people annoy me a bit tbh cos it’s like hi!!! you’re actually the only person who you’ll be with for every second from birth to death. So you need to be selfish sometimes.

Often people’s selfishness works in your favour. When I had braces and PEOPLE WOULD TALK TO ME WHILST LOOKING AT MY TEETH NOT MY FUCKING EYES!!!!! (If u have never had braces you won’t get this but it’s so fucking annoying and if you’re a person that does it stop it cos it’s just weird and annoying.) I would wear reflective sunglasses so people could see their reflection and get distracted so they wouldn’t look at my teeth. People are more obsessed with themselves than they are with you when it comes down to it. And it can be good. We all need to be selfish sometimes and I’m grateful to the people who check themselves out in my glasses or one of those display boards around school with the plastic cover. Cos I do it lol (idk if this is a thing everyone does or just claverham people?? Cos we had no mirrors, reflective surfaces is all we had lol peak

But being selfish isn’t necessarily a bad trait. However, if you treat the world like a game of sims, selfishness can be bad. If I was making a person and one of their five traits (if you don’t play sims (whyyy???) you can only assign your sim 5 traits so like ‘friendly’ ‘flirtatious’ ‘loner’ ‘mean spirited’ and ‘family orientated’ that person would show those characteristics and no others) was selfish, that’s a bad person cos you know that when you pick their lifetime wish it’ll be to be a professional criminal or do smth mean which is just long and I hate having to make my sim stop making someone else’s bed cos they won’t get any lifetime happiness points from being nice. So having selfishness be a secondary trait that’s small but still there is fine. Don’t have it in the foreground.

It’s fine to shove someone out the way when ice cube is about to come on stage, but it’s not fine to shove someone out the EU when they didn’t even have the opportunity to decide their own future.