Sunday, December 10, 2006

Narcissm

A pattern of traits and behaviours which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self to the exclusion of all others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition.

Narcissism is named after the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus who was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. In punishment of his cruelty, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love, he pined away and changed into the flower that bears his name to this very day.

This is the definition for a mental help site.

Latter last month I read a review of biography of Shahrukh Khan by one of his friends in which SRK had said that reading oneselves biography would be finest example of Narcissm! Since then it had been troubling me. What if I read the blogs written by me? If I wan to recall the past incidents and the related thoughts which arose that time? Is this narcissm?

Lots of such questions troubling me. . . .

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