Have you ever been wrapped up in yourself and desperately wanted to get out of it? Have you ever stepped outside yourself, took an objective look at the state of things, emotions, life's reality and thought, "Geez, I wish I could get out of this funk?" Yep - I have been there. For like a month I've been there. Wrapped up in self. Wondering the 'where's mine'. Frustrated over petty persecutions, angry at emotional reactions...and feeding oneself on my own emotions. Ugh. It stinks to see it, and not know how to pull out of it. And then I did something for someone else. I put delicate care, time and energy into a selfless act for a stranger. It did something amazing. It showed me something so valuable....that I am so blessed, and that life is too short, too precious to waste on my own frivolous complaints. When we do for others we are forced to step outside of ourselves, it forces us to tend to someone else, and forget the selfi...