**NOTE DISCLAIMER: This is my personal philosophy about topics I write in here and is in no way meant to preach nor is it right. I reserve the right to change and or edit this topic and to debate or protect them. This is not against anyone as it is a neutral point of view that even applies to myself.
In my mind and to my knowledge, all humans are selfish. No one and nothing is void of this. However, society within today's standards, and years that have passed and yet to come, have dubbed this word "selfish" to be purely negative. Well this is not so. It is in fact, a neutral term. The theory goes as follows. Everyone does everything to benefit only themselves as the individual. For example, we work to gain money to buy for ourselves, we kill to benefit ourselves in some way, we hurt others by bullying to benefit ourselves in some way and we go through school to gain a "future", etc. But let's look at the other side of it. When we do something to make ourselves feel good, we sometimes help others (in various ways). For example, we jump in front of a gun to save another life, we lend out money, and we do charity work, etc. Even though we made ourselves feel good, as this was the original motive, we still help the other individual(s). You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. It is an endless cycle of both good and bad, therefore making the word "selfish" neutral. As stated previously, this is applied to all of us, even myself. There isn't always a reason for it, it is a fact of life.
But the question here is, does this define human nature? Not at all, maybe a small particle of its great whole, but not at all. This is simply my perspective. Human nature cannot simply be defined by one word, phrase or explanation. It is always changing because we are humans. And because of this, we are "perfect". We humans have the ability to contain an incredible range of emotions and thought processes beyond any other living creature on this Earth. To cry, to love, to be angered in one instance and to laugh in the next. It's what makes all humans both ugly and beautiful. Life is not something that can be only hated or only loved or both in one moment. It is an impractical emotion towards life. Life is as defined per individual and born from human nature. So, human nature should not be hated but enjoyed, despite it all. For without even the "bad", we would not know positivity and would not be who we each are today. I regret nothing in my life. All emotions are both a gift and a curse making it normal to everyone. Though they influence us, we use them to make choices that define us. We are each born into different worlds and lifestyles and so we learn to use our "tools of emotions" differently, making no two people the same. And that's what is even more beautiful: that two completely different thinking people can bear a relationship. This is so because we seek to find the answers within everything, to better understand everything. The range of relationships is awing from mere friendships to soul mates.
And so, the real question is not about human nature, but human. What is the definition of "human"? It cannot be defined by one word, phrase, or explanation. It is an infinite list of definitions because each human is different, forming different human natures. The fact is, it was never about choices, life, people, human nature or the Earth...it's about humans: an entire topic of its own.
