Narcissism is the new humility.

[wolven7]

There's a rash of "Tell me something awesome about me," memes, on the internet. They have the potential to help people engage themselves more honestly, if done well.

So, black as the night, and sneaking into your mother's bedroom: Tell me what you envy about me. But tell me what I should envy about you.

Tell me what you'd do alone with me. But leave your name out in the open.

And Tell me something that you absolutely can't stand about me.

Then tell me why I should value your opinion. Here's a hint: I already do. But Why do I?

{I recommend your passing it along.}

Now bugger off and think about it.

Comments

[raoin.livejournal.com]

you can always seem to sound authoritative, even when i know you're pretty much pulling it out of your ass.

when i do decide to get down to brass tacks and assert my professional opinion on the matter you can bet i have looked at the subject long and hard before saying what i have to say, and i think people recognize that.

i was thinking about biting your fingers the other day, and i miss biting your neck in the courtyard, that reaction was always fun.

i hate it when you get grumpy from being hungry. it pisses me off because i do the same goddamn thing and that only serves to remind me that i do that to others, and its something i wish i could correct in myself.

i think you value my opinion because you've realize over time that i dont typically fuck around, except when the conversation we're having is centered on saying the most ridiculous things we can think of. and also because i have never, in my recollection, not accepted your ideas as valid, although i have at times pointed out areas where i feel that there are problems/unresolved questions/ambiguous answers.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Generally the best way to make it through the whole process.

I think that's true, but you should make it more well known.

I hate it when I get grumpy like that, too, because I can't seem to stop myself, even when I recognise it.

You value me, I'll value you. Well said.

Danke.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

you can do the same for me here if you would like. :)

and, you're welcome.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Your arrogance, to the ends that it is founded. Your knowledge of who and what you are, and it's solidity./My ability to adapt and conquer, when I finally roll up my sleeves and decide to deal with something. I know I can deal with damn near anything once I convince myself to shut up and do so. Now if only I could get that to function more often...

What I do with you in the privacy of our room is no one else's business. At least until the business is through and the veil is set on fire.

I hate your tendency to always sound as if...well, as if you know everything and you know it best. The ass-end of that arrogance, dear.

I'm not sure why you value my opinion when I don't half the time. Maybe it's my ability to overthink and analyze what's presented, and cut to the core of it.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I think you're absolutely right. And, again, getting that to focus, more...

[scamort.livejournal.com]

I envy your social network, and how you seem to keep it going despite being difficult to get a hold of. I am enviable because of my ability to be completely apathetic to even the most difficult of situations: it allows objectivity and comprehension of the given trouble.

I would probably discuss philosophy and plans.

As others have said, you arrogance irks me, although it is some times justified.

I believe you value my opinion because I have flashes of insight that go beyond my years of experience, besides my level-headedness.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

You do have a very calm, very insightful manner about you, much of the time.

[tsarina-bomba.livejournal.com]

Your confidence. Plain and simple. It's something we've discussed...I don't have very much confidence in myself. / I can't think of anything other than my ability to take a punch and keep on going.

Bite you.

You have this ability to make me feel rather inferior sometimes...

I tend not to think like others, and usually bring a unique perspective to things.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I don't mean to.

You do the wu-wei thing rather well, sometimes, yeah.

[tsarina-bomba.livejournal.com]

wu-wei?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Wei wu wei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei): Inactive Action. It's a hard thing to do, so don't do it, and you'll do it better.

[paosparti.livejournal.com]

1. I envy your passion, I envy that you are working on your masters. You should probably envy the fact that there tend to be more job opportunities in my field then in yours, but now that I say that I'm sure all my chances of ever getting a job in my field are nil.
2. I'd have a bloody long conversation with you... about everything.
3. You post so darn much I can't keep up.
4. Because I usually think about my opinions first, I often research them, and I rarely require others to agree with them.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Not requiring other people to agree with you is a very good trait. :)

[ellenore.livejournal.com]

1. Envy- I envy that you've been able to get in a thrive at grad school. I'm not sure I'm intelligent enough or brave enough to apply.
Envy me- I'm not devastatingly hot, but I'm attractive (or something) enough that some people like me for reasons unrelated to my personality. That's more weird and ackward than anything else, but I'm sure it has given me some advantage somewhere. It's something I've been envied for in the past.

2. I tend to have lon, rambling conversations ith people when we're alone

3. Honestly, I don't know you well enough for there to be something I absolutely stand about you.

4. I may be wrong, but I rarely have an opinion that I haven't thought about and debated with myself. 'm really good at seeing both sides of an issue.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Multi-facetedness is good. Some people would claim it as hindering your ability to have a solid stance, though.

I'm not one of those people.

[thenowhere.livejournal.com]

I envy that you can remember your dreams every night. I *really* wish I could do the same (without, y'know, having to work at it, at all!)

You should envy me my ability to turn it all off. To close up and walk away and just stop, for a moment, to gain a sense of equilibrium. Mind you, it's a bit destructive to every relationship you'll ever have, but it's a coping mechanism born of pure and utter selfishness that allows you to willfully, cheerfully ignore your helplessness in the face of things you feel you cannot affect, things that have absolutely *nothing* to do with you, save that they tear through humanity with dark hearts and savage teeth, and you are a part of humanity, and so you weep for your brethren, simply out of sympathy, the kind that wounds and festers, because there is nothing to be done, but keep going.

Alone with you, I'd drink a lot of whisky, smoke a lot of cloves, and talk. And talk and talk and talk. And possibly cook. But mostly talk.

I can't stand that you post the song titles/times in with your posts. Drives me freaking crazy and screws up my train of thought while I'm reading. Slowly getting used to it. Slooooowly.

You value my opinion because it's right. :D

Actually, probably because I'm charismatic, can spin a good line, am intelligent, witty, pretty, and well-sold. And even if it's founded on shit, I can make it sound cool.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

The song thing's because that music is what fuels my typing cadence and rhythm.

And the ability to spin a good line, to convince me of something you know is right, even if your ability to tell me why is founded on bullshit? That's a good thing, because then at least I know you really believe in it.