Block out all things that hurt my feelings and can lead to criticisms or critiques of my behavior, so that I am centered within myself and can go on living in a bubble of cognitive dissonance-tinged enlightenment.
C.S. Lewis said a similar thing about those who think loving something besides themselves is too risky of a proposition.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
Block out all things that hurt my feelings and can lead to criticisms or critiques of my behavior, so that I am centered within myself and can go on living in a bubble of cognitive dissonance-tinged enlightenment.
We as a community have been infected with this. It didnt used to be this way. I've been fighting against it since I found it.
100%....I know a narcissist and one day I pointed out their flawed thinking and their response was "I'm sorry your view of me is so jaded. If you reached out to anyone in my contacts on my phone they would disagree" .......of course the contacts would disagree because the narcissist cut all ties and blocked anyone who disagrees or challenges them.
That is a personality trait I can never understand and not worth a second of time.
This is literal narcissistic thinking.
Block out all things that hurt my feelings and can lead to criticisms or critiques of my behavior, so that I am centered within myself and can go on living in a bubble of cognitive dissonance-tinged enlightenment.
C.S. Lewis said a similar thing about those who think loving something besides themselves is too risky of a proposition.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
Any quote by CS Lewis gets my updoot an my full attention. Thanks for that one, Fren. I will save it to my collection.
We as a community have been infected with this. It didnt used to be this way. I've been fighting against it since I found it.
100%....I know a narcissist and one day I pointed out their flawed thinking and their response was "I'm sorry your view of me is so jaded. If you reached out to anyone in my contacts on my phone they would disagree" .......of course the contacts would disagree because the narcissist cut all ties and blocked anyone who disagrees or challenges them.
That is a personality trait I can never understand and not worth a second of time.