Curing the "Private I" Complex

You see, people aren't really interested in you. Your troubles and problems are yours, my friend, and nobody else really cares. You know why, don't you? Because they all have problems of their own. Certainly theirs are more important to them and yours. And, conversely, nobody's problems are quite so important or imperative to you as your own are.

Curing the "Private I" Complex

This is all leading to a very helpful point. I've told you, and I'm sure you agree, that we are all completely alone. But there is a way, comparatively simple way, of relieving the loneliness just a bit.
And that is to overcome the overpowering dictates of the great "Private I". Most of us are so firmly imprisoned in that seemingly escape-proof cell of ego, that dark, despairing dungeon of self, that we tend to believe that the entire world revolves around "me".This is an all-too-common ailment, this "private I" complex, but it can be, shall we say, arrested, if not completely cured! How? Simply by being interested in others.
Now is that such a difficult pill to swallow to alleviate such a painful disease? Of course not-although it's not quite so easy as it sounds. At first you will probably have to force yourself to be interested in others. Pulling your interest away from yourself, your problems, your cares, is like pulling two powerful magnets apart-but you can do it! Force it for a while, you will be surprised to find that in short time you actually will be interested in others.