the center of the universe

It is interesting to think that each of us, to ourselves, is the center of the universe; we think from the point of reference of ourselves, and everything else does rotate around us, in a sense. So what if our entire lives were meant to broaden our mindset? To teach us to think farther and farther out from ourselves, to take a bird's eye view on life? Maybe it really is so, for it seems that is the only way we can ever understand why so much of life seems to go against the grain of human nature. It always seems we have to live backwards to go forwards, to give up ease and comfort and natural wants and ambition for self, if we are ever to succeed in all the truly important things...