Confronting Yourself

I think about myself about 90% of the time. Is this percentage normal for a single person? The happier I am, the less I think about myself, and the unhappier I am, the more I think about myself. I suspect that when I’m married with kids, this percentage will drop to something like 60%. When I have passions and causes, I think about myself less. I notice that most people think that if you go to therapy, you’ll think about yourself more. I don’t see this. What do most people think about when they’re driving or walking or not required to give their complete attention to the task at hand? Aren’t they usually thinking about themselves? With therapy, at least, you’re confronting yourself and getting some insight into how you cause your own misery. With 12 Step meetings, you’re again confronting yourself and becoming more aware of how you are the cause of your own misery and the way out is through service to others. Most people seem to consider 12-step work and psycho-therapy and analysis as symptoms of self-absorption when to me they are symptoms of somebody wanting to confront himself.