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Can you remember the most selfish thing you have done?
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The most selfish thing I have ever done and I would still continue to do is always being myself. I am very self centered when it comes to sticking to what belief. It is very difficult for my views to be changed by anybody. And I love myself this.
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I bought mobile phone and I didn't tell my partner about it because I know what his reaction.
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help someone else, because the gratification, the goodness that comes to you,.

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I'm not perfect and I'm sure I've done many things that my memory has blocked out because they are too embarrassing to even think about. The one that stands out in my mind is when I should have gone to my neighbour's funeral but I had the chance to do something I wanted more with a friend so I told her husband that I couldn't get the time off work. I still cringe when I think about it although he believed me and didn't seem upset. I did support him after she died so I hope in some small way I made up for not attending the funeral.

We're all selfish at times and I think in general I do try and be a good person but I'm human and sometimes the little devil sitting on my right shoulder talks me into things I shouldn't do! I've done plenty of things I'm not proud of but hopefully more that I am proud of.
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Once my husband needed money badly and he asked me. I said I did not have any money. Actually I had  money in my bank account, but did not want to give to husband who was trying to get money for his sister. This is the most selfish think I have ever done.
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You can most definitely do things that even embarrass you when you think of them,the best thing to do is forget about them and move on.
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You can help him. Because your husband take care of you. My husband didn't look or take care of me and kid and he wants my gold,money and house without looking my mother.
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Denying my brother my laptop was the most selfish act have ever done. Four months ago he was doing a project and his laptop had spoilt . He had slapped me the previous day after an argument and I knew the best thing is revenge. When he requested to use the laptop, to told him am busy using it yet it wasn't. I really felt so bitter after some days after borrowing almost all his friends to no avail. If he has calmed down his ego he wouldn't have suffered the way he did.

I felt so bitter from inside but there's no way I could have expressed my feelings. I hope next time I'll be able to understand how to handle such kind of issues.
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We should learn to be there and provide for our loved ones whenever they are in need of our help.
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It's ok you denied him a laptop but it's not fair at all, just take that situation to be you
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The most selfish thing I have ever done is denying refuge to one of my friend's friend. It was just last month and I was in my apartment at school preparing for my exams when I received a text from my friend, a certain boy in my year in campus. We are not so close as friends and he did not even have my phone number so I assumed he had borrowed it from one of my friends. The text was asking if I could host one of his female friends who had come to visit him and had nowhere to spend the night.
I had agreed at first but changed my mind after thinking of how I will have to tolerate the presence of a stranger in my apartment, I am much of a loner and I am used to this. So I texted him lying that one of my friends was coming over to study with me for exams.
Later I felt so selfish. I kept beating myself up thinking of how bad the behavior is. The next day I met with the guy while coming from my exams and he told me that his friend found another place to sleep. It was with shock that I learnt that the lady stayed a whole week in the place the guy had found refuge for her. I started felling relieved that I had lied that night, could I have tolerated her a whole week?
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I would feel the same as you especially if it was someone I didn't know. She might not have been honest or she could have been really dirty and untidy. I think you made the right choice.
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So sorry for your experience but normalize being there for people in need.
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I have been selfish a couple of times but this is one. It was something as trivia as a cream. In college hostels in my country, it isn't uncommon to see girls and boys living off others. This girl and her sister were always coming over to use my hair remover cream. I tolerated it at first but it became unbearable. One night she came and said that she needed it because she had a date. It was the last of the cream, though I didn't have any use for it, I still refused to give it to her. I was upset that she wouldn't just get hers and leave me alone. Later I felt bad about it because I never even got to use the cream until it expired. After that she never came back again and I was pleased. That taught her to buy her own stuff.
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I don't think that was selfish of you. She was taking advantage of your kindness. Some people are like that.
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Person I don't like selfish people and enttain selfishness I normally take situation to be mine
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I needed to think about this for long before answering. I know I am not perfect. I think I became selfish on ideas for my classmates before, or office mates before. I keep the ideas to myself because my environment has a lot of ideal stealer and they do not give credits to it. They steal your ideal and make it their own. Learning about this I adjusted myself and develop an attitude of being selfish with my ideas. Also, when a lazy person in the office needed something to me, I said no. I decline it because I know the attitude. If I will say yes, then the person will do it to me over and over. I will get fed up and for sure they will take advantage of my kindness. I guess kindness deserves kindness and not selfish people like them. I finally learned to give something to whom it deserves to have it.
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It's always okay to share ideas where necessary,all you have to do is keep an open mind.
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The most selfish thing I had ever done was placing my job above my family and the job was actually consuming and taking over most part of my life and I cared the least about the consequence. I was never there for the family and they hardly saw me daily because I leave the house very early and came in very late and all what I did was just to support financially and that was it.

I never attended the kid's events or stopped by their school to see how they were faring  academically, hardly took them out,couldn't answer to their inquisitive minds because I was hardly around and my fatherly roles  weren't effective carried out.I had to retrace my steps,I'm more of a Father now since I had to leave the job and try to focus on all areas of my life.
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I guess it was after my dad died and my mom went off the deep end and sold the house, bought a new house that was a fixer-upper and wasted all the money she had gained from the sale of the house. She is now crying to all of us for money again after we had given her so much and paid for all her mistakes in the past. I refused to give her more money and to even talk with her again. I bailed her out of the mess she got herself into and she swore she learned her lesson. Come to find out she is in a bigger mess than before and never learned her lesson. She is selfish and all she cares about is running around and paying the way for a friend of hers to take her places. She does not care how much money she wastes on her trips and feels that it is up to her kids to pay her way in life. All of us are close to retirement and if we do not put our foot down now we will have nothing for ourselves and when she is gone we still will have a major debt to pay off for all of her mistakes.
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Being selfishness is a human nature nowadays. In workplace, I am little selfish to get promotion and rewards. Not only me, even everybody is selfish in my office in this case. 

But to my beloved ones, I won't be selfish.
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I have held back help in the past, but I was in the position to help, I had the resources but I intended to see how to multiply it and make it big before rendering the help, at the end it wasn't possible, I felt to selfish and guilty, lesson is to put others first. 
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I had a workmate and was at one time financially down. My husband did not have money either I called to ask her for some help and she refused. At work place she complained to me that her husband used all her money for taking alcohol. I kept quiet because she had said she didn't have money. A month later she called to borrow money. I told her I didn't have either. I do not regret since she showed me she's not a kind of person to help out a friend in need. We parted ways and never talk. 
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I think the most selfish thing I've done is not being there for others when they needed me and sharing even the little I had when I had the chance.
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Refused to play 'kung fu hero'! Over the last forty years I have seen many fools getting beat up, and always refused to intervene, even though I'm very skilled in fighting. Everything I know, anyone else could know, and everything I can do, anyone else could do...if they had wanted to learn badly enough....but they all chose not to. Either they convinced themselves violence would never come their way, they chose to be a pacifist, was too busy taking a Pilates class, or had 101 other excuses. They made their bed of thorns, and I have no inclination to save idiots from their own bad choices.
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The most selfish thing that l ever done was when we and my mom had an argue regarding my monthly salary recently. I don’t have the choice that she needs to get seventy percent at least of my salary goes to her each month. Before on my previous job l am in control of my salary that l can budget and save more each month. It is on my mind that l need to save more money here in current job abroad so that l can retire when the right time comes. So, l just thought now it is my way of repaying my mom to all her efforts in bringing me up. I am the only one who can help her somehow with the monthly expenses since we are only two abroad living in the same city. Though our immediate other relatives can help us from another state but as much as l can l don’t want to depend on them. I just find other ways to get some side income so that l can l still save from the remaining share l am getting from my salary.  
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The most selfish thing that I have done is not let my university classmates copy my answers in a particular exam before. There is no regret in doing it.
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My whole life I listened to everyone around, ignoring my own feeling and emotions. For me what other think matter the most and I never wanted to hurt other with time I learned this only hurting me and has suppresed my confidence because today I don't know that I actually want or not. Trying to change myself, but this thing is upsetting people around me.
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I have always been the one who isn't selfish. But it had down more harm then good. So I have decided to start being selfish and put myself first. 
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Most selfish thing i have ever done was when i arranged my sleeping place in a camp without arranging for my pals, and their feelings was really hurt.
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The most selfish thing I think I most have done is eating my sister's food in school after eating mine it was my favorite food so after eating my own I was not satisfied that why I had to eat has a bit.
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The most selfish thing I've done is I hide money from my parents. I don't know if it's also selfish to others but they're always in need of money but I restrain myself of giving my extra although we're in need.
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The most selfish thing I have done was to prioritize my own needs and desires above the needs of others. I was so focused on my own success and happiness that I neglected to consider how my decisions might affect others.
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