u/dimdodo61

Its really like that story of Narcissus looking in the lake at his reflection, and narcissism kind of relating to that admiration he had of his own image.

I thought of this in a really stupid way, I wear these reflective sunglasses (kinda like the ones skiers wear) and sometimes people will ask if they can look in the shades at their reflection (while I’m wearing the sunglasses), just to fix up their look. Actually sometimes I just catch people doing it without asking, which I don’t mind. And the way these people look at themselves is haunting——it’s with way more love than you’d ever see someone look at someone else. Their gaze is very lusty. And I’m sure you could notice this by just seeing how they look at themselves in the mirror, but it feels so different to experience it in the form of eye contact, because then you really compare how they look at themself to how they look at others.

i just feel like this experience really speaks volumes of how narcissistic (or even actually insecure, depending on how u interpret it) humans are.