How are you to approach balancing your time between your friends? When presented with multiple options, is it fair to pick the one that you want most? In a battle between getting ice cream with the girls or shopping with an old friend, is there an ethical approach to making a decision? I was recently presented with the claim that I only spend time with people when it's convenient for me. I felt warry about this accusation because in fact, yes, I do plan my time around what is most convenient for me, and what made me most uneasy was the idea that in doing that I had unknowingly been doing something wrong. I know that I've sacrificed my time for others, and decided to do things with people that wouldn't have been my first choice, but it's true that for the vast majority of the time I pick what works out best in my schedule and for me. I want to know what the ethical approach is to balancing being selfish and selfless, because I'm facing the possibility that my balance has been entirely off for entirely too long.
4/22/11
I don't balance. I fail so much at this.
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