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[kissa_bites]

 

People are so interesting. Recently, I've found so many people who seem to be convinced of their own self-importance. I've noticed it particularly with young men, but also with young women in their late teens/early twenties. Grandiose announcements are made, huge plans for opportunities of self-aggrandizement are formed. Commands are issued in the forms of READ ME NOW or MESSAGE ME OR ELSE!!!!111!!!1. 

Well, we've already read what I think of, "Tell me or I'm gonna delete you" in a previous blog. As for "Read Me! Important!" unless you are dying, are needing to do a survey for school that's due tomorrow or have a serious social or institutional rule that you're enacting, I do NOT have to read it. I do not care if you are offline, online, have dyed your hair pink or if you're trimming your toenails tomorrow at 10 am sharp. Trust me. I do not give a rat's ass. 

I might be more inclined to care if you pm'd me with "hey, just a little, teeny FYI, just in case you need something from little me, but you might not, but just in case, hey..." 

Sometimes the arrogance is subtle. It comes in the form of refusing to follow instructions, refusing help or even constructive criticism. What on EARTH makes you think that you are God's gift to anything, much less what you are being given instructions on? What on Earth would give you the impression that you don't need the help? If it's being offered, you likely do need it. Accept it with grace. Be glad someone is offering their time to help you so you don't continue to look like a fuckwad.

e·go·cen·tric (g-sntrk, g-)

adj.

1. Holding the view that the ego is the center, object, and norm of all experience.

2.

a. Confined in attitude or interest to one's own needs or affairs.

b. Caring only about oneself; selfish.

3. Philosophy

a. Viewed or perceived from one's own mind as a center.

b. Taking one's own self as the starting point in a philosophical system.

Please do not be surprised if I do not respond to your pronouncement or edict. I do not have the life energy to respond to other people's need for ego stroking - especially when it hasn't been deserved. As we've seen, I have enough things on my plate.

Just because your mommy treats you like the center of her universe, please do not assume that I'm going to. The center of my universe is me.