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This world is full of people who are semi-secure of themselves and the usual deviants form the norm whom post here and elsewhere on the Internet are those on the insecure end of things. What a lot of people don't take the time to care for or understand are the narcissists of this planet.
It's easy to look at an egomaniac and detest them, the primary reason it's easy is because they care enough for themselves for you to feel like there's no "gap" in their personality for you to help fill or bridge.
These people tend to be detested by many for posessing the very confidence that people wish they had. What's clear to me, as I am on the narcissistic end of the spectrum, is that people don't actually understand what egomania or self-admiration is like.
People figure that egomaniacs are simply insecure people masking as confident individuals and are just bad actors.
In actuality, most egomaniacs are so ridiculously content with themselves that they very often hide just how godly/goddess-like they see themselves for the sake of being accepted by the one they are talking to.
In actual fact, some of the most humble people at face-value were in reality narcissists who managed to pull off the act so much they got a massive following. Their egomania is obvious by how vigilantly they held onto the idea of their way of thinkign and doing things dominating others' but since their behavior was socially acceptable, people merely fuelled their ego and worshipped them in a deifying manner:
In actual fact, there has been moden living proof that when someone begins to reign in how they act, their egomania becomes met with far more amiability than hostility:
This is quite the opposite tale of an egomaniac who went from being masked to being unveiled:
Anyway, let's get to the nitty gritty of this MyTake. What is it like to be an egomaniac? The people who say we are just insecure and pretending we love ourselves have some validity to their statement. Almost any egomaniac on Earth had a rough childhood in some way. They felt either neglected or overtly rejected and decided that the best way to cope is to quite literally be their own best friend and tell compliments to themselves. It was true for me and pretty much has been true for anyone who is either as confident or more confident than me that I've ever met.
This doesn't mean all egomanaics were beaten as kids,nor directly bullied (although most were), the key factor is that the child must have felt like no one could give them the admiration or attention they remotely rdeserve dso they began pleasing themselves and yes that is even in the physical sense of the term, be it via drugs, masturbation or literally needing to hug oneself in times of despair to cope.
The egomaniac soon forms a 'shell', by around the age of 16 it is impossible to become an egomaniac if you are nto already one because the childhood requriement for it is essentially redundant. During the late teens the egomaniac has probably not only accepted they are one but unlike in their younger years begins to use their psychologicla loophole for reassurance to greater extent than simply coping. This means that even if they come across people who would be decent friends and companions in times of need, they simply don't allow themselves to rely on them as they know a 100% guaranteed source of confidence and care who is simply always by their side in a psychological sense (themselves) so they think "why should I allow myself to search otuside for something I've supplied myself for years?" it is actually very similar to seeing an impoverished child be offered money. They may recognize that eating out of garbage and begging for a living is undignifying and an inferior lifestyle to that of a middle class citizen but they simply cannot fathomw hy they shouldn't keep goign how they always have as it has been stable their whole life and they are good at it.
Often the egomaniac appears hostile and/or rude when in reality they are simply confused as to why you are being nice to them without an ulterior motive. The egomanic has never and can never be nice to someone wihtout wanting somethign in return, to them it's imposisble to even imagine a personality that woudl do such a thing but clearly many people do this and somehow enjoy being kind to others. What happens is that when you are kind to an egomaniac, they assume you are trying to manipulate them and fuel your own ego via their 'thank you' and their general friendhsip with you. They are thus constantly on guard and genuinely wary of you. The best way to make an egomaniac actually be kind to you is to actually be what they fear. If you give somethign to the egomanaic, dont' put them in debt say "you owe me this favor" or "I hope yu pay me back" but then if they don't say "it's alright, as long as you stay my friend for life". These things to a perosn of average ego, or even worse a shrunk ego, will not jus toffend them but put them totally off you but to the egomaniac, they will actually laugh and think 'finally, someone who makes sense!'
You will also find that overconfident people are actually much better at raising your own ego than the typical insecur eperosn who compliments everyone 24/7 and here is why:
To the insecure person everyone is better than them, that's a given. They will tel lyou anything you want to hear to kepe you liking them as they fear losing you if you don't. An averag eperson simply says "you can do it!" but simply means "I hope you will do it and I'll like you even if you totally fuck this up!". On the other hand, when someone as critical as an egomaniac, who probably ahs poitned out a couple of your flaws because it's jus thow they are, tells you that you're godo at something and if you feel the need to get encouraged to do somethign tough ath the egomaniac genuinely believes you are good enough to achieve, they will not just make it more worthy because they usually don't compliment you but they will glamorously flower up their reassurance of you syaing "you are the best motherfucker at accounting, don't let those inferior nerds beat you, they aren't half as deserving of it as you are." or something along those lines. The egomaniac is so used to thinking this about themselves when it comes to what they are good at that they simply know how to encourage soeone else better than people of lower ego-levels.
An interesting point to understand about being overconfident is that to us, everyone else is simply a slave in some way to society and is just so okay with being one. It's like we are free pepel lookin in on a prison but we are the minority. The insecure are the prison bitches, the fairly confident are the prison dons and the guards are the people who like to bully and pick out flaws.
Now, I'm in no way romanticising egomaniacs as simply onlookers in life. In fact, some do bully severely (not all bullies are egomaniacs and vice versa, that's to do with how one fuels their ego). All egomaniacs are dominant and like to use other people as underlings but what's important to understand is that the egomaniac doesn't want to simply be your boss. Job title and societal power is merely a slight boost to their ego, the real fun is in how they go about doing that job. Eminem is an egomaniac and how he was as a rapper was undeniably mor eentertaining and brillliant than a humble rapper such as George Watsky (an internet talent who made it big) or Dizzy Wright (similar story but signed ot a label to make it big). In fact, when it comes to the arts, I can't think of a single successful artist who doesn't show many signs of egomania. Perhaps it's because art is all about self-expression that the more rational side of things doesn't attract egomaniacs so much.
It's also important to understand the difference between a psychopath/sociopath and narcissist. When someone is both they tend to have no passion, hence not go into arts and instead opt for manipulation-prone jobs with little expressiveness invovled such as politics, law and such. When they are narcissists with very few psychopathic tendencies, they tend to feel a huge need to express each and every thought and emotion they have to the rest of the world (yep, Twitter whores and Facebook spammers fall under this even if they are posting depressing or self-loathing things).
In essence, an egomaniac is someone who sees the world as an audience but sees themselves as both the performer and the professional judge on the panel. If people judge them as inferior or bad, the error is with the people's taste. If people admit they are good, well they owe them nothing as they are just admiring a superior being for what they are.
An important part of understanding egomaniacs is to not think 'how dare they be so delusional' but rather to think 'if i was that delusional, what would I appreciate someone doing for me?'. Teasing and banter are no-go zones when befirending an egomaniac because not only will they be far more butthurt over it than anyone else but they will bite back viciously and overly harsh since it's not a game nor is it remotely fun. To them it's a brutal war on their magnificent ego and you better be ready for the backlash. Simply be consistently nice to them and make it clear you want them to be nice in return and you will be able to have a very enjoable relationship with an egomaniac, be it a sexual or non-sexual one.
You are nothing more than a means for the egomanaic to feel appreciated. You will never be more than this no matter how much you do for them. If this hurt and offends you, avoid such people. On the other hand, you will notice that the only interesting people on Earth are egomaniacs and no one wants only boring friends (well maybe some do).
Anyways this was my rant about beign an egomanic, please fuel my ego or don't state your worthless opinion. ;)
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