Fear of following your dreams

Toward the end of April 1519, after months of illness, the artist Leonardo da Vinci felt certain that his death was only a few days away. For the past two years Leonardo had been living in the chateau of Cloux in France, the personal guest of the French king, Francois I. The king had showered him with money and honors, considering him the living embodiment of the Italian Renaissance, which he had wanted to import to France. Leonardo had been most useful to the king, advising him on all kinds of important matters. But now, at the age of sixty-seven, his life was about to end and his thoughts turned toward other things. He made out his will, received the holy sacrament in church, and then returned to his bed, waiting for the end to come. As he lay there, several of his friends--including the king--visited him. They noticed that Leonardo was in a particularly reflective mood. He was not someone who usually liked to talk about himself, but now he shared memories from his childhood and youth, dwelling on the strange and improbable course of his life. Leonardo had always had a strong sense of fate, and for years he had been haunted by one particular question: is there some kind of force from within that makes all living things grow and transform themselves? That is why they resort to shouting, groundless accusations, and other manipulation techniques in a bid to get the person to back down. Since narcissists are not developed emotionally, they are hypersensitive. This enables them to give a personalized and intense reaction to whatever happens. Being out of touch with their real self, they are usually entangled to the person that is unfortunate to be the source of their narcissistic needs. This entanglement makes the other person responsible for soothing and inflating their ego, safety, purpose, sense of value, etc In other words, this person is held accountable for the narcissistic person's wholeness, not them. Most of the time, this person might believe they are in a normal two-way relationship, ignorant of the impact in the narcissist's life. Generally, the actions, speech, and what this person doesn't do, resonate with a narcissist and they feel it is always about them. This doesn't pose a problem if whatever happens to benefit the narcissist. On the contrary, if this does not favor the narcissists, she considered himself outsmarted, cheated, and betrayed which causes him a lot of pain.

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If such a force in nature existed, he wanted to discover it, and he looked for signs of it in every thing he examined. It was an obsession. Now, in his final hours, after his friends had left him alone, Leonardo would have almost certainly applied this question in some form or another to the riddle of his own life, searching for signs of a force or a fate that had brought about his own development and guided him to the present. Leonardo would have begun such a search by first thinking back to his childhood in the village of Vinci, some twenty miles outside Florence. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci, was a notary and staunch member of the powerful bourgeoisie, but since Leonardo had been born out of wedlock, he was barred from attending the university or practicing any of the noble professions. His schooling therefore was minimal, and so as a child Leonardo was left mostly to himself. He liked most of all to wander through the olive groves around Vinci or to follow a particular path that led to a much different part of the landscape--dense forests full of wild boar, waterfalls cascading over fast-moving streams, swans gliding through pools, strange wildflowers growing out of the sides of cliffs. The intense variety of life in these forests enthralled him. One day, sneaking into his father's office, he grabbed some sheets of paper--a rather rare commodity in those days, but as a notary his father had a large supply. He took the sheets on his walk into the forest, and sitting upon a rock he began to sketch the various sights around him. To let out that pain, she resorts to an outburst. Boundaries are essential in life, even though many people have no regard for personal space. We have markers and fences in our front yard that serve as boundaries. We have a gate in front of our house to keep away unwanted people and the elements. People respect physical limitations since there are clear signs to keep others in check. Personal boundaries, on the other hand, are not visible. This makes it easy for other people to violate them, especially a narcissist. People who have been in a relationship with a narcissist know that one of the hallmarks of healing and recovery is having and enforcing healthy boundaries. One of the twisted realities that exist in the mind of a narcissist is that others exist to serve them, especially their victim. As a result, they believe their need is way more important than others.

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He kept returning day after day to do more of the same; He had no teachers, no paintings to look at; He noticed that in drawing things he had to observe them much more closely and catch the details that made them come to life. Once he sketched a white iris, and in observing it so closely he was struck by its peculiar shape. The iris begins as a seed, and then it proceeds through various stages, all of which he had drawn over the past few years. What makes this plant develop through its stages and culminate in this magnificent flower, so unlike any other? Perhaps it possesses a force that pushes it through these various transformations. He would wonder about the metamorphosis of flowers for years to come. Alone on his deathbed, Leonardo would have thought back to his earliest years as an apprentice in the studio of the Florentine artist Andrea del Verrocchio. He had been admitted there at the age of fourteen because of the remarkable quality of his drawings. They have no real sense of being, so they rely on others for power. A major characteristic of people with narcissistic personality disorder is a complete disregard for boundaries. This affects their relationships with people at work as well as at home. Even in social settings, they are often viewed as inappropriate because they are the ones that dominate the conversation or make an insensitive remark. Personal boundaries could be physical, mental, or emotional limits. They are there to guide us from manipulations and unfair treatment. The boundaries are there to put a distinction on your wants and feelings from that of others. This, most times, does not sit well with the narcissist, so they see it as rejection. They take it as cruelty on their feelings, emotions, and needs. A narcissist can be likened to a toddler that throws tantrums at every objection to their needs.