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Do you believe that you are a pushover? Is every stranger, friend, and lover taking advantage of you? If so, then I am here to tell you about my new exciting new self-help plan that helped turn me away from being the pushover to being the pusher.

Nothing like a horrible self-help introductory sentence to make your skin crawl. Then again, I'm sure it made you read this paragraph. On topic now, driving to work made me think of the type of people we are becoming. Whenever I went to the mall, while I was growing up, I would always open the door for the lady behind me. Of course everyone else behind her saw the sucker whom had let someone pass, so then they had to make a dash through the door while quietly mocking my ignorant youth. Everytime this happened, it really pissed me off that no one was willing to grab the door, but I kept on doing it anyway. After many "learning" experiences, I began to develop the right technique to door holding which includes letting the door hit the next able body person to try and steal a free entrance.

I believe most of life is this way. In every avenue, we switch from being the youthful helper into the self-concerned pusher. I do not think that most people do this on purpose. Its just survival of the fittest working its magic in this world.Whether it is letting a driver in front of you, giving a dime to a kid who only needs a nickel for a soda, allowing the person with less groceries ahead in line or unloading a bag into a car from an elderly lady's shopping cart,  liife has become so fast that we don't have the time or desire to help out the person next to us. While driving this morning, I saw that the turn signal to the car next to me was flickering. I didn't want to risk making bad time to work so I didn't let the car in front me. I don't know when he was able to get over, but I do know I could've just made things easier by simply tapping my brakes.

I only wonder if I have it better now that I don't get pushed over or was life better when I was a absent-minded youth?