People are being more individualistic in their thought processes and that is prioritising oneself first. This was inevitable as this is a result of natural progression in the society ie moving from joint family system to nuclear ones, women joining workforce, commodity driven world and many more factors.
I personally believe that there's just too much advice going around these days mostly from Instagram reels and all that is so contradictory that people get confused on what's the right one. In the end, they chose the ones promoting isolation and namely 'self respect' ones. Every other reel you look at is talking about self respect, yes it is important but there are situations when the term 'self respect' is just not relevant mtlb there's not even a need to bring it up coz it was never in question but now that I've seen a reel about something slightly similar, my brain thinks my self respect has been harmed and I need to cut this person off.
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