"Everyone you interact with, anyone that you have a conversation with, anyone and everyone in your life, wants something from you."
If anyone tells you otherwise, then that person is lying, if you believe otherwise, then you are lying to yourself.
A better way to understand this is to ask yourself that,
"Have you, or anyone you know, ever interacted with another person solely for that person's benefit and no benefit of your own. whatsoever?"
The answer is likely, absolutely not. Even when we get into the topic of philanthropy, many will argue that helping others is a partly, if not wholly, done in order to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
Whenever we meet someone new, it is almost guaranteed that he/she wants something from you, or wants to use you as a means to an end. Just like how I got to know someone quite a while ago and manage to learn quite a lot just from that ONE person. It's not really a bad thing.
Human beings are built to protect and look out for themselves first and foremost. This legendary egocentricity is built into our DNA as a defense and survival mechanism that cannot be changed. How can nature be so contradictory? Quite honestly, I am not sure.
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