Why are V so selfish? Why most of us are so selfish? I believe that selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Our conscience is the measure of the honest of our selfishness. Besides, to belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It is more selfless to act happy. It is true that to gain something in life, one has to lose or sacrifice something, but i think we should never try to hog loneliness and keep it all to our self. We must share it with a special one. If we can live with "selfishness" then why not with "true"