am i narcissistic?

this is a good question to ask oneself when you find that you are constantly blogging, thinking about blogging, and posting to twitter and facebook.

i do not find my life to be overly interesting or stimulating, which is perhaps one of the reasons that i post so much--to make it seem like i am more interesting that i am. not to others of course, but to myself. i mean, how else am i going to chronicle my ideas and life, other than in a paper journal with a pen. a paper and pen are so 20th century. this is the 21 century.

i like writing (unless it is for a school assignment, then i avoid it like the plague). i am a bit of a lyricist and i enjoy manipulating the english language within a written piece of work, whether it be an essay, short story, blog post, or the tight character count confines of a tweet (twitter) or status update (facebook).

so what is the definition of narcissism? lets ask http://dictionary.com:

nar⋅cis⋅sism
–noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.


hmmm... it would seem that i might be narcissistic. crap. though it does say "inordinate"... i'm pretty awesome, so is it really inordinate?

just something that i've been thinking about this week and today.. i mean, as i am driving down the road i think of things randomly and say to myself "that would make an awesome status update!".

that's something for me to think about as i change my guitar strings and plan my next blog post.