Existentialism

   The idea of Existentialism is pretty interesting. What it's saying basically is that the point of life is to survive, that everything someone does is selfish and meant to better ones own life. I feel that this is mostly true, but I deisagree with the other part of Existentialism, that acts of selflessness are a removal of oneself, that if someone does something selfless, they are ceasing to exist.

   That doesn't make sense to me. If I do something selfless, lets say give some money to charity, how is that removing myself and ceasing to exist. By doing something selfless I am revealing and shaping the person that I am. Existentialsm says that you must voice yourself and act as you would in order to impose yourself upon the world and help to form it, but acts of selflessness do show the world who you are and help to shape the world around you. In no other moment are you revealing more of yourself to the world, than when you do something for others, for no reason other than you feel you should do it. So I think Existentialism is wrong to say that acts of selflessness are bad and things should only be done selfishly.