Narcissm in Society

            Narcissism is defined as excessive or erotic interest in ones self and ones physical appearance. People are beginning to think that if they are physically attractive or they have a lot of money, then nothing else really matters. For example, Floyd Mayweather. He is a professional boxer and is probably one of the wealthiest person on this planet. During his fight against Manny Pacquiao, Floyd made 1.46 million dollars for every minute of his fight, according to bleacherreport.com. The funny thing is, although he has all this money and he is indeed narcissistic, he is illiterate and can not speak fluent English even though he is American. The word Narcissism comes from the Greek Mythology story of Narcissus. Narcissus was the very handsome fellow in Greek mythology who, because of his indifference and disdain toward others, was punished by the gods by falling in love with his own image. He was so enraptured by his beauty that he was unable to pull himself away from his own reflection, and he wasted away and died. In my eyes there are two variations of Narcissism. You are either full of yourself because you think your physical features are perfect, you are super wealthy and can do whatever you want with the money you make, or you are proud of who you have become and show pride in your physical appearance.


             
              If you are one of the people who are ignorantly narcissistic and have a really large ego, only caring about yourself and not others, then I truly feel bad for you. Studies in America have shown that 30% of young people ( 18 and under ) are considered narcissistic and in the last 5 years that percentage has increased by 8%. A study by the celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Drew, in which 200 celebrities completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, found that they were significantly more narcissistic than the general population. We wonder why our narcissistic population has been increasing and this clearly the reason why. We generally look up to celebrities as leaders and people who we want to be like when we are older and if they are showing narcissism towards themselves we are going to ' follow in their footsteps ' and by following our celebrity footsteps we are contributing to the rising population of narcissism.


   
               Another way you can view a form of narcissism is showing pride in yourself. If you had bad habits and your life was going in the wrong direction, picked your socks up, got back on track and showed pride in accomplishing that, then that is a good form of narcissism. There is a difference between being full of yourself and being proud of yourself. If you are like Kim Kardashian and you're famous for doing nothing and earning lots of money while still bragging about it then you are a narcissist. Meanwhile, if you go through many tough years of schooling and work really hard at school and get good grades to eventually get a good job making lots of money then you are a good narcissist because you have earned your wealth.


              In my opinion I believe that Narcissism in society and in peoples everyday lives is okay if you are being a narcissist in a good way. Showing pride is being a good narcissist while bragging about the amount of money you have or how popular you are when you did close to nothing or nothing to earn it is being a bad narcissist. Narcissism in society wont go away because we always want what celebrities have and they are going to brag about the wealth that they have or the things that they own just to trigger our desire to be just like them.