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The Most Mystifying Thing About Narcissism that Leaves Most People Stumped

The Reason Why They Did It.

Honor Payne
2 min readMay 28, 2024
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The most difficult thing for me to grasp about narcissism after all I have learned is that everything they do, everything they build up to, and every hoop they jump through is all just for the discard.

Think about how many times they will build you up to tear you down, but then they will grovel to you afterwards to the point that they will do anything if only you’ll talk to them for a minute.

Or what about when they go to trouble of finding all of your friends on your phone or social media, researching and checking out such people as well as analysing what you say about them when you talk so that they can figure out how they can use them later.

Then pursuing these friends, manipulating them, and finally turning them against you only to make all this hard work that is also time consuming totally pointless and redundant with the discard of everyone involved.

And to think that is the whole point of what the narcissist does is such as waste of time.

I know they get your money, time, energy, and attention along the way, but they are wasting their entire lives in pursuit of people they can eventually abandon.

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Honor Payne
Honor Payne

Written by Honor Payne

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