Penelope's Insight to the Self-Involved Person

While browsing around for some interesting topic to blog about tonight for trigirl82's entertainment, I came across this video. I have to give credit to my cousins for first enlightening me to these videos over Christmastime. While I admit that I don't belly laugh when watching this video, I do let forth a chuckle and then wonder to myself how people can just talk and talk and talk about themselves thinking that the world revolves around them. Don't we all know someone like this? Unfortunately, I do and have recently encountered yet another self-centered mind process of this person.

There are unfortunately those people who think that everything going on in the room, or our lives, or the world for that matter revolve around them. That the way people react are strictly because of them. That what people say are strictly because of them. It's like their minds are a steel trap that will not open to realize that maybe the other people in the room aren't even thinking about them or perhaps there are other circumstances that make people act the way that they do. For some reason, they think they have such a strong effect on people that it is always about them.

News freaking flash!: It's not all about you!

I dated a guy once who was completely like this. He would be paranoid about the dumbest things like not going to someone's wedding and now that person wasn't talking to him anymore or not treating him the same or etc. etc. Maybe they were just so annoyed that he was so self-involved and flaky that they didn't want to talk to him anymore. Possibly people just get busy and quit calling. Quite possibly they weren't just waking up every morning holding a grudge against him that he didn't go to their wedding five years ago. Seriously, does everything have to be about you? Open up your eyes.

People like this generally will never change. You can explain and explain everything from your point of view and they will never see it from any other direction than their self-centeredness. It's pointless even giving them the time of day to explain things from your side. It won't change anything. Let them live in their oblivious world not realizing how many people feel the same way that you do.

Whew....thanks penelope. I'm glad I got that out.