If you want to see the ultimate face of narcissism, take a good look at our president, he really believes he knows everything, everyone else knows nothing and the voting public are unnecessary illiterate peons.
It is hard to remain friends with or listen to, someone who thinks they are superior, when there has been no evidence to show they actually are exceptional.
When is the last time you spoke to someone twenty years younger than yourself who thought they should lecture ...you on things they have never experienced or even seen? It is exasperating at best, their arrogant attitude is not conducive to a quality conversation.
When we are being "talked at" rather than "visited with", there remains no sense of reciprocal respect. My response when I encounter this is a tactical retreat to somewhere else. There is no point in attempting to be friends with someone who hold us in so little regard.
A friendship is based on mutual love and respect, when there is one side that has nothing but contempt for the other, then there is nothing of value to hold onto in the relationship, time to gracefully move on to others who understand basic empathy, kindness and love.
Proverbs 18:24 "A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
Christ is our friend, the perfect example of a friend!
John 15:15 ""No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you."
Proverbs 13:20 "He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will suffer harm."
A person who thinks they know everything learns very little and almost nothing about relationships because they are too busy elevating themselves.
Proverbs 22:24-25 "Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself."
John 15:13 ""Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."
Dying physically for a friend is only one way to lay down ones life, the other way is to be there for the friend, weeping with them when they weep and laughing with them when they laugh. Next time you are with a person who has contempt for you, notice they cannot bring themselves to laugh with you, nor can they weep with you. Laughing and weeping are seen as weaknesses to those who are superior, and yet God commands us to have this kind of kindred spirit with brothers and sisters in the Lord. We are to be connected by Christ, sensing in our soul the things others are experiencing in their souls.
Romans 12:15 "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep."
1 John 3:14 "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death."
Hebrews 13:1 "Let love of the brethren continue."
