Narcassim

We have had a lot of conversations lately about narcissism and how can you stop it, are you one, do narcissist think they are narcissistic.  My niece at dinner the other night said what is a that you are talking about, I said well it would be like your mother falls and breaks her leg and that night you have a party to go to and you are mad because she broke her leg and can't take you there.  She said I guess I am a arsonist, I laughed and said you don't start fires. LOL......
However, I have come to realize that we all have narcissism in our veins, do you say I'm not giving them a present till they get old enough to appreciate it and say thank you, (your gift giving is about you), how about I hate that she is so sick maybe I can help but you know my stomach as been hurting so much lately (her sickness leads back to how if effects you), I'm so sorry you have had this death in the family I couldn't enjoy myself at dinner for all the sadness in everyone's life,(your sadness effects their happiness), I can't be escorted down the aisle at the wedding, it makes me so nervous for people to look at me, (my comfort is my far more important than the special event). These are just a few of the comments I have had to listen to over the course of a month.  I finally blew today with Josh, he called to tell me how much he didn't like the shirt that Audrey had picked out for him to wear at the wedding, his comment was (it just didn't feel right).  I saw the shirt on him, it looked great, I paid for it so there was no money out of his pocket.  I finally had had enough, I told him there are things he does, things he likes, things he says that just bug the crap out of me but as we get older we learn life isn't all about me.  We might want it to be, we might live like it is, but hopefully as we mature we realize there is a bigger picture, that we are not entitled to every little comfort we feel we deserve and every happy, sad or tragic event that happens in our life doesn't always have to be about how I feel or how it effects only me. Philippians 2:4,5 " Don't look out for your own interest, but take an interest in others too. You must have the same attitude that Christ had."