A narcissist is often restless. They believe that happiness and satisfaction lie elsewhere, beyond the current relationship, the current job, or social circle. This is why they’re always scanning for the next best thing, the next shining object. Their mind tells them, “If you find a better partner, a higher-status job, a more glamorous friend group, everything will be perfect magically. You won’t feel this emptiness anymore.” But perfection does not exist, as you know, and the narcissist isn’t chasing better circumstances. Let me tell you, they’re running from themselves. They are escaping the deep void of dissatisfaction they carry inside, a void that no external achievement can fill.
That is why I say narcissists are not intelligent. They seem to be so, but they’re cunning, and they lack even basic intelligence and emotional intelligence, which is why, in search of gold, they settle for coal. Narcissists think the next supply will fix them, but this is not their reality. It is an illusion. And then they settle for someone who is a downgraded version of you. Now, I’m not putting down the next source of supply. What I’m saying is, whenever a narcissist walks away from one relationship to another, they never go for a better one. They downgrade their supply. They settle for less. It’s their delusion that they think they’re going for the best.
And when they go to a new supply, we normally think the narcissist is living their greatest, best, most amazing life. No, they’re not. The hidden truth about their life is that it becomes a series of escapes. That’s what it is: escaping from people who expose their flaws, escaping from situations that reveal their weaknesses, escaping from reality that does not conform to their fantasies. But the greatest escape is from their false self, from the painful truth that their internal emptiness is the true source of their suffering. All I can say is that their life is their karma.
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