Shameful self-aggrandizement.

My problem. Being overly aware of myself. I should learn to go through an entire day. Without thinking of myself. Better to focus on others. And the things and events around me. Maybe I've never lived a day. In which I forgot myself. Totally. Maybe that makes me an out-of-whack human being. I should spend significant portions of my life. Focused on something other than myself. I'm too self-centered. Too self-absorbed. I know it. Yet I persist. In staying that way. I put myself at the center of the universe. Time to face the truth. That makes me a very imperfect being. I relish being imperfect. A form of self-aggrandizement. Shameful. Yes, I am shameful. --Jim Broede