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Narcissism Hurts the One You Love
Substantial personal relationships make you want to 'commit suicide,' your coworkers are 'robots,' now you think the solution is to become a performance artist and bask in the nonreciprocal worship of strangers. Fortunately, you're smart enough to know that this may not be sustainable for a 20-something Nietzsche-misinterpreter, but you don't know whatever path to take. The only path to sustainable happiness is love, and love is reciprocal, it's often painful, and entails sacrifices and, yes, humility. Are you capable of reaching outside of yourself? Are you capable of giving on an empathic level? I don't know, but I can tell you that a life dedicated to spiritual masturbation will never be fulfilling.