SELFLESNESS

Yet another dirty word tickles my fancy!
But in my case, it's not a pleasant feeling. It's more like an unpleasant tingling.

What is disinterest?

It's detachment from one's own particular interests. It's the loss of interest in someone or something. Why have I reached this point?

Let me take a few simple examples.

TV . I no longer enjoy watching or listening to it. I used to be fascinated by the news, but I've lost interest in it. It's always the same things being repeated.
Enough is enough!

Friends. Yes, I've had a few, not tons, but there comes a time when everyone has his or her own problems to deal with, and friends fall by the wayside. And yet, there's a certain pleasure in sharing one's opinion with others, and those others are, in principle, my friends. I'm afraid I'm gradually losing them, through my own fault as well as theirs.

Family. Family is important, but distance and remoteness mean that we don't see each other, and worse, we don't talk. These days, everyone is busy with their own obligations, which explains the lack of contact.

And here's a nice quote from Brigitte Bardot: ''The animal brings one thing more: its fidelity and selflessness. Total love. A love without borders, without end''. Interestingly, we still have so much to learn from the animal world. Jane Goodall did just that, working with chimpanzees.

Since we're in the animal world, here's another saying I found that may be applicable to our subject: ''Self-interest is but the extension in us of animality: humanity begins in man only with selflessness.

It would seem that there is something positive in selflessness after all.  A certain John Pawson found that "simplicity has a moral dimension which includes selflessness and detachment from material possessions". Noting above, detachment was my first suggestion.

This detachment is nothing other than the state of mind of a person who attaches no particular importance to something - in other words, indifference.

Victor Hugo had the magic word: ''The true name of devotion is disinterest''. And so the action of devoting oneself finds its place. Who better to describe this willingness to serve someone, this self-sacrifice on behalf of others. Another positive aspect of this word, which at first seemed rather negative.

However, we can substitute the word disinterestedness with the word indifference, which is hardly advantageous. Besides, the latter is only convenient if we don't want to face reality and the efforts required to remedy evil and violence.
In conclusion, I can say that at the start of this piece of writing, I had lost my taste for everything, a total lack of interest, and now, after a little over an hour, I've produced a few paragraphs that might help the reader to find his or her way back.

Just now, I think I should add a very personal reflection. At the start of this piece of writing, I was feeling a bit sullen, which is why I chose this subject. However, towards the end of the text, as the sentences developed, I had the wonderful feeling that writing made me feel better. That's why I'll have to keep writing, whatever the subject.