How cocooning helps you live your life first, and then worry about the others

'In case of emergency, put your own mask first before helping others'. We're all too familiar with the over-scripted airline instruction, the ubiquitous mantra of distant travel.

Sometimes interpreted as a much deeper life lesson, you can easily understand how this advice can lend a better you, a you that can help more by just helping yourself first. But is helping others always the goal? I would argue that in most normal situations it is not. Personal goals are first and foremost self-serving and only after, altruistic. No matter how you look at it, there is a certain amount of egoism in this lesson even though at first thought, you may be tempted to think differently.

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