Isn’t it forgetting self for others?

THIS REFERS to the Young Blood article written by Abelardo T. Palad IV (“For others,” Opinion, 5/26/15). The article is apparently intended to drive home the point that the author must be a man for others. However, saying that others must be forgotten for this to happen really goes beyond my understanding.

“The moment you forget about others is the moment you forget yourself.”

“To forget about others is to forget who I am.”

The two quotes above can only make sense to me if the author is talking about amnesia, wherein the person concerned forgets about other things also. However, amnesia is clearly not what the article meant.

Isn’t the author really trying to say that “to remember (be concerned for) others is to forget yourself”? For indeed, how can anyone be for others if he forgets about them?

—CHEM ALDECOA,

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