Worry
I think worrying is such a selfish emotion. Because the worrier is never worried FOR a person, but about a person, or about their taxes or about their midterm or about something that ultimately has to do with them. People who can worry solely on the basis of how something would affect that other person are indeed doing a rare act, because ultimately, you're worried about yourself.
My parents never did worry for me. They were worried about themselves and that they would have a daughter who wouldn't graduate college. But they never worried that I wasn't acheiving my dreams. My parents overprotected me my whole life with every motive saturated with worry. But they never worried about what they were preventing me from experiencing.
I don't speak of this as if I am the ultimate deity of empathy and selflessness, I am hardly such. But all the same, I realized that I am kept in because I ultimately represent what they can't control.
My parents never did worry for me. They were worried about themselves and that they would have a daughter who wouldn't graduate college. But they never worried that I wasn't acheiving my dreams. My parents overprotected me my whole life with every motive saturated with worry. But they never worried about what they were preventing me from experiencing.
I don't speak of this as if I am the ultimate deity of empathy and selflessness, I am hardly such. But all the same, I realized that I am kept in because I ultimately represent what they can't control.