I'm openly arrogant and smug and ironic about it

As per my inherent Slytherin / INTJ / ice queen combo nature, I'm naturally disposed to think of myself as better than others. I sneer at people who whine or complain, who are poor or unemployed, and who claim that their obesity is not of their own doing. Simultaneously, I find them amusing: I've been known to buy books were people share their difficult experiences with, say, unemployment, and enjoy reading them.

On the one hand, I think I'm entitled to feel this way about others because I used to be a whiner and a complainer, I used to be poor and unemployed, and I used to be so heavy that I didn't feel comfortable in my own body. And I changed all of that.

Then again, I've been a spoiled brat all my life. I grew up in a big house and my parents had cool American cars and a boat.

Simultaneously, I know that while I've had my own ups and downs, they're subjective to me and to my personal experience, and I have no way of knowing how hard someone else's life has been.

While, at the same time, I don't look down on people who do better than me. On the contrary, I feel inspired by them. I consciously subject myself to the influence of successful people in order to brainwash my subconscious into believing that I can do and achieve anything I want.

I also use the word "I" a lot.

I also gasped in empathetic horror yesterday, watching The Green Mile, when Percy stepped on the mouse.

Not very Slytherin of me.

(Then again, I find other people's trauma amusing.)

RK out (probably to use the word "I" some more).