This single sentence highlights the crux of the issue. We have become a self-centered, self-obsessed society. What “I” think is the only thing that matters. This is not the way many people behaved and believed in the past. If you can stop for a moment, consider the feelings, opinions, and pain of others FIRST……your own feeling, opinions, and pain is often alleviated. Our society has become a situation of everyone screaming at the same time in the same room…..and NOBODY is listening. We have somehow come to the point where we believe that my issues and pain….are more important than ANYONE else’s. The fact is that EVERYONE has pain, been persecuted or discriminated against (now or historically), or has been treated unfairly. It could be race, sex, age, physical/emotional limitations, wealth, national origin…and so on. So NOBODYs pain and suffereing gets relieved….until we stop being self-centered….and START listening opening to others.