Who's the Selfish One Now?

Let's say I brought a cake home one day and placed it in front of Person A (let's call her 'Belle'), and Person B (I'll name her 'Elle'). To the two of them, I said two words: "eat it," and then left.

Belle and Elle go about doing their own thing and forget about the cake. A couple days later, Belle finds it sitting right where I'd put it down that first day, untouched, uneaten. She takes a piece, and another, and another, until she's eaten almost all the cake. She leaves a tiny piece for Elle.

Elle comes across the piece of cake a couple hours later, and is immediately furious at Belle for having eaten most of it. She calls Belle selfish for having eaten most of the cake and (most importantly) for not thinking of her (Elle) wanting to eat most of the cake too (and thus for not splitting it 50/50).

So who's the selfish one?

Belle who ate most of the cake (except a tiny sliver) and didn't think of Elle's desires?

Or Elle, who expected Belle to act in a certain way to satisfy her (Elle's) own selfish desire to eat most of the cake as well?

My answer? Both. How about yours?

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all. I truly hope that this year brings every success and desire you can possibly wish for. For me, it's going to be a year of profound changes and perhaps even of trials such as I have never faced before. I do not ask for you to pray for me - I've never asked anyone to do so, and would rather that you don't (being areligious myself). That being said, if you ever have an excess of happy rays, please do send them my way. In the darkness that some say is on its way, I'll need them. I hope they're wrong though. I really, truly, hope so.