Pizza and Its Toppings

Today’s world has limitless change. My world has changed a lot. In the old days, it was a world unlike any other. And I feel deeply grateful now that I was born in a city, small enough, civilized enough to be ridden of a smell, a smell that pierces through my nose every single second I live here. A shit smell can’t kill me. A dull smell won’t lay a hand on me. It is the smell of thirst for personal glory. It is the smell of selfishness. Putting oneself behind others was what I was taught in the small city I lived. And sadly, there is an inverse relationship between such value and the size of a city. Who will ever expect that in a great, arguably one of the best cities in the world, there lives humans who are much more uncivilized than people found in a small city like mine? The value that was taught to me was also taught here. It’s just that it is taught the other way round: Putting oneself beyond others. It was astonishing and astounding at first when I found out that humans here don’t live like how humans live in my city. And now, it still bewildering and baffling every time I unveil pieces of this smell. It is like unveiling pieces of a picture, a drawing which portrays a band of homo erectus holding their well-crafted stones in a wide, paved street surrounded by skyscrapers on both sides of the metropolitan city’s street. It is an irony that as human progresses, they, in fact, are moving towards a level they once reached 2.5 million years ago, where hunting and self survival was the core of the principle; where selfishness is vastly proclaimed; where humans are still not a social being. That puzzle picture I had in my mind, becomes more and more vivid as I discover the inscrutable world I did not live in when I was young.
Fortunately, I am mature enough to understand what is wrong and what is right.
Fortunately, I am strong enough to maintain the value I was taught when I lived in that small city of mine.
Fortunately, the smell does not preoccupy me.
Fortunately, I am not moving towards the era this civilization once experienced 2.5 million years ago.
What is the point of eating a piece of pizza without its toppings?
What is the point of having friends that are not worth having?