Are martyrs actually selfish auto-addicts?

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I totally agree Minyatur about the form of addiction to one word of praise. When I was very young, one word of praise was like my savior, I was very shy and about 12 decided I would be ok whatever people could think or say, it took a lot of nerve !!! lol I was really torturing myself at night about what someone would say to me or about me to someone else. But it was such a torture that the decision to stop putting so much importance to it was in fact tremendous relief. I can see now it helped me building up slowly some compassion for myself and a lot for others. really interesting.

I think there might be more selfless martyrs but we just don't hear or know about them, it's the silent crowd. I think people are truly courageous and oriented to the good but we just dont know, despite chaos and despite Orion's effort