Sounds More Personal Than It Feels

Sometimes doing things for other people feels alright. And some people consider that to be altruism. Not me. If charity didn’t feel good to me, look good for me, or satisfy some internal imbalance within me, I wouldn’t do it. It’s pure self-interest.

This one time I lied to a homeless guy about having issues with addiction. I was in the park; not one of those real parks, one of those tiny parks that…