Coat of Arms and Egoism

Thanks to Sparkles, I thought about how my Coat of Arms would look like. Now I've finished my black and white version of it. All the symbols have various meanings for me and they tell rather a lot about me but I don't think I'll explain all of them here. But you're free to ask if you're really interested and maybe I'll answer ; )
Don't ask me though why the colours are so strange here...it's not how the original looks like!
Oh and "Aurea Mediocritas" means "The golden middle"...

Now to egoism. I sincerely admit: I'm an egoist!
But I'm in good company because I think that there's not one human being on Earth that's not egoistic. For me, there's no selfless behaviour. This may sound a bit strange now or pessimistic but indeed, it's not. It's only a bit philosophical. You see, I think that the only difference is in our values. What gives us joy. If money is all that you love than you'll be a miser but if spending money on presents than you're generous. But if you say that you only make presents for the joy and happines of others than that's not true. You do it because you feel good if oyu make others happy. If you wouldn't feel good you wouldn't do it. So you're own happiness is always the most important thing to you. And therefore everyone is egoistic. It's just that egoism is thought of as being something negative but in truth it's neither good nor bad, it's just the way we are...and probably every other living being. We always compare possabilities and chose the one that makes us most happy or least miserable. Sometimes we might chose the one that we know will make us miserable later on but then we're more living in the moment than in the future and so we chose the thing that's most comfortable now.
I'm truly convinced of this egoism principle. Just like the "there can only be one almighty being" statement, it has no real consequences for our lives. But maybe we can accept gifts more easily if we know that it's not only giving ourselves joy but also the ones giving it to us. At least if it's a sincere present. If you feel bad giving a present because if may cost so much or whatever than you're not honest about that present. You just feel that not giving it would have worse consequences for you.
So everything we do is simply for our own pleasure and if it gives pleasure to others than that's just a nice coincidence.

Enough from your egoistic :: Yeoyou :: for now : )