I Love Me *edit*

I found this article today and it caused me to instantly think of this girl I know. Her screen saver says "I Love Me!". The first time I saw it, I didnt believe it. I thought, really? that is what you want your screen saver to say? Since then I have come to understand that her screen saver is a very appropriate statement of her.

This girl has little to no regard for how her actions affect others, usually quite negatively, is a expert lip service user, and is harmful to society as a whole with her irresponsible spending habits and social choices.

Whenever I encounter someone who approaches life from such a different way than I do, I study them and what they do. I am very interested to understand why they do what they do and what effects their actions have. My conclusion on this one is that she operates with one cardinal rule: If it benefits me, and mainly me, I will do it. If it doesn't, I won't.

After reading the article above, I realize that there might be a lot of other people just like this girl out there who function the same way. This makes me sad, and glad that I didn't go to school during the "I am special" wave. I remember parts of it, but my self worth foundations were laid before the self esteem wars began.

I also am reminded of the ubiquitous myspace foto pages that are filled with nothing but different poses of the same person taken in their bathroom mirror. Philosophically I have to ask, how far will this trend go? Will there be an equal and opposite backlash? Are there trends that are so destructive there is not opportunity for backlash? Are we all self addicted to some extent, but most of us are closeted, while people like the screen saver girl are 'out and proud'?