Number 5: Constant Reinvention
They change their appearance like they are running from their reflection. Every few months, you’ll notice a narcissist will reinvent themselves: new haircut, new wardrobe, new career idea, new aesthetic. It looks like evolution, but it is escape. They’re not growing; they are running from who they are. They despise what they look like in the mirror that is real life because it leads them to remember the other part of themselves who got revealed, rejected, dumped, or discarded. So they experiment with new personas as they experiment with new wardrobes: Monday minimalist, Tuesday entrepreneur, Wednesday yogi, Thursday artist. They wish to be someone else because being someone and being themselves is confronting the void.
What you drive, where you reside, and what you wear do not define you, but add to you. If vanity defines you, then you’ve lost the plot already, and you are on sinking sand. They wear fashion like a mask. They wear luxury like a shield. They keep on seeking freshness because the old leaves them smelling stale and rotten. They subject their looks to the same treatment they give other people. They idealize it and then devalue it, later discarding it behind the door.
Regardless of how many masks they wear, how many selfies they take, or how many makeovers they get, that decay within still leaks through. The hurt finds its way into their smile. The brutality destroys their serenity. And then you see it, you feel it, you sense it: that they are not doing so well; they are surviving behind a mask, and that mask is weakening.
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