Why do we blow our
own trumpets?
It’s always a
question that concerns me because either most of us are so insecure within our
own skin or we are constantly fixating too much on ourselves that we need to assert
our prominence.
Whatever the reason
be, we really need to listen to us speak or see us in the act of this
impeccable display of pretension which I call callous and preposterous. The
beauty of a task can be experienced when the result is accomplished not with
pomp and show, but with the consequence that now exists because of this
triumph.
Although, it has
become customary to broadcast even the subtlest of feats, so that the world may
know what universal egotists we have grown to be.
In a movie I
recently watched, the main protagonist educates how important it is to complete
undertakings and not announce it, because the recipient should not feel
obligated towards us, for whatever service or support made available. Our parents
never made us feel obligated for the number of diapers changed, sleepless
nights wasted and an infinite number of other labor that they took upon
themselves for our benefit.
Nonetheless, how
much of this offence can we burden ourselves with? The culture that we are so
close to, teaches us to exhibit ourselves as the most perfect art of
narcissism. Our corporate and bureaucratic realms are mostly enslaved by the idea
to display and sell people like objects meant for bidding which is a charade,
that ironically we are tolerant about and play significant roles in.
Our actions should
be applauded, not the hype created about it. And actions that may never be
known should construct us as humans that can experience and blossom in the authenticity
of new encounters.
As the novelist Graham
Greene quoted in the book ‘Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party’ - “He's
satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.”. So a soul is what we seek for, a Narcissistic Noble is not what we would call upon to be!
