"Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more"
I know I'm guilty of being a narcissist, but now I realize that I'm not as self-involved as a lot of the people I know. These assholes get on my last fucking nerve. I expect to have a dialog with friends. I like to ask a lot of questions.. because I like to know about my friends and I like to help them if I can, but it's funny when the people I know expect me to give a shit about everything they have to say even though they don't care about me.. they don't ask me about my life except for the standard questions, e.g. "how are you?", "what's up?", "what's new?", blah blah blah. There are too many people to care about in this world.. I can't waste time with the people who don't care about me. Don't tell me you give a shit about me if you don't know anything about me or never bothered to ask. Everyone is self-involved, of course, but some are so completely consumed with themselves that they feel the whole world was created for the sole purpose of affirming their own existence. You are incapable of truly caring about anyone else so stop saying you do.
"Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. We are all part of the same compost heap." (A hardy handshake to whoever knows what movie that's from)
So how does one spot an extremely self-involved asshole, you ask?
A. Look at how you relate to them.. if they go on and on about their own life or opinions without asking for your input.. you have your asshole
B. If they don't seem to notice the obvious annoyed look on your face when they babble on and on about their fucking kids or their boyfriend or whatever the fuck.. they expect you to naturally be fascinated with everything about them.. yup... asshole
C. If they never ask in-depth questions about you, but have no problem offering up their own life story.. you got it.. asshole!
D. If they abruptly switch the focus of the conversation to themselves whenever you offer an anecdote, story, or opinion.. that means they look at everything as how it applies to them.. that's called "egotism".. time to tell the asshole to fuck off.
An exerpt from my friend's journal:
"A year ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery was a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes, I'll do it if it will save her."
As the transfusion progressed, he laid in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away?" Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her."
"Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. We are all part of the same compost heap." (A hardy handshake to whoever knows what movie that's from)
So how does one spot an extremely self-involved asshole, you ask?
A. Look at how you relate to them.. if they go on and on about their own life or opinions without asking for your input.. you have your asshole
B. If they don't seem to notice the obvious annoyed look on your face when they babble on and on about their fucking kids or their boyfriend or whatever the fuck.. they expect you to naturally be fascinated with everything about them.. yup... asshole
C. If they never ask in-depth questions about you, but have no problem offering up their own life story.. you got it.. asshole!
D. If they abruptly switch the focus of the conversation to themselves whenever you offer an anecdote, story, or opinion.. that means they look at everything as how it applies to them.. that's called "egotism".. time to tell the asshole to fuck off.
An exerpt from my friend's journal:
"A year ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery was a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes, I'll do it if it will save her."
As the transfusion progressed, he laid in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away?" Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her."