But during those early years, she developed an inner world...and hers was all important. If something affected her life in any way that was not wanted, she made sure something happened... The first time was when a dog who had been chasing her...was somehow hurt by a passing car. Nobody saw her tempting and taunting him to come out on the road... Then there was her desire to become head cheerleader...
Scholastically at the top of all her classes and the best female athlete in the school, her court had continued to grow until it was universal, not limited to a single grammar school class, but to the entire student body. Every popular boy in the school sought her attention now.
Could things get any better?
Things will be better, she thought. After all middle school was only a prelude to high school which was a place where she could reign over thousands. All Charlotte remembered from middle school was the adoration of her peers, and the loss of Joan...
She participated in activities that helped others, and did so with bursts of seemingly heartfelt compassion. Not only did she made things look easy, she made herself look like perfection. And what was wrong with any of that? she thought. Nothing, with the exception of the fact that she had absolutely no qualms about inflecting the most heinous grief, misery, and injury upon anyone who deigned to tarnish or pose a threat to the image she had crafted for herself. And she was about to work her tragic magic on one Carol Parker...
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The Narcissist:
A Dark Journey
Note: Either via my problems with Hughes Net or with Blogger but I have not been able to save the proper colors and size to differentiate between excerpts and narrative. I hope you can follow. Sorry...
By Jon D. Zimmer
How many are out there, living across the world, for surely it is not just in America, although there may be far more here... Who of us are not aware of all the reality shows that merely have rich and beautiful women fighting...or those who had reached notoriety which now includes posting nude selfies online daily. I've always been a women's advocate, but I'm ashamed of today's women... Or those teenagers you see on Dr. Phil or some other program that speaks to the lack of self-control, the lack of respect for their parents or anybody else.
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| Uma Thurman was chosen to play Charlotte purely based on her looks/versus cover. |
On the back of the book, we are asked to be judge and jury. I judged her guilty, because she was a brilliant woman, and she knew what she was doing. The question I had was how many women...and men...are out there doing exactly the same thing?
Do you know anybody who does not let others get in the way of getting what they want? Consider if you would that it only took me about 10 minutes to find relevant music...and what individuals are listening to...
Or even in their home?
Charlotte was just four when her mother asked if she wanted to walk to school by herself? That she was going to school showed her intelligence which was totally being supported by both parents...
But what about her emotional maturity. She had been taught to think and be independent enough to walk alone from home to school. So when a huge dog started following her, then chase her, this four-year-old girl didn't go home, crying to her mother. She instead made a plan...she planned to have him run over by a car. Not necessarily to kill him, but to make sure he never chased her again... But if he was killed? Well, that, too, would fulfill her needs...
This was an extremely hard book for me to read. The pressure, the drive to ensure children grow up to be a success begins early these days. Forget about love and emotional growth, supported by parents...None of that was mentioned in Charlotte's early life...
I'd recognized that in my own life, I was taught prejudice. I was intelligent enough to make my own decisions that I didn't want to follow this type of teaching. Charlotte became a brilliant physicist, married early and was totally in love, only to lose her first husband in Vietnam. That loving support she'd gained in her life had been ripped away from her. She reverted back to Old Charlotte... Her next marriages was mostly based on the wealth of the man...
The key to her life's actions was manipulation. She used, for instance, her body's beauty, to gain attention. She then played a part that would seem to be one thing in front of others, while she was manipulating upcoming events via what plan worked to get her what she wanted...
Now I have to add that the worst manipulator with whom I've worked was a man...He used to meet with my office staff, make agreements and then we'd find out later that none of his staff knew anything about the decisions. Have you met people who always put themselves first in interpersonal interactions. What have you done? One man in the book committed suicide for being cast out of a job he'd had for 30+ years...It sounded very familiar to my situation... The difference I've always know when somebody was trying to manipulate me...
If you've let it happen, then this book is a must-read. And if there are those of you who are undecided about the upcoming election, this book just might help you decide on your own plan of action... Kudos to the author who undoubtedly met one or more narcissists...and wrote a book about it!
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Graduated from Valley College, attended Cal State Northridge University, and the masters program at Pepperdine University, Jon Zimmer began a career in business, running several divisions of large corporations, and started up two companies. The Narcissist: A Dark Journey is his fifth novel. His other titles include: The Trinity Pact, The Cozy Place, Generations-Birth of an American Aristocracy, The Secret Invasion Book One of the God Chronicles, and The Dark Journey of Charlotte Prentice
The America I knew
31.Oct.2014
I have grown up in this country when it was the greatest place in the world to be alive, not just in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s, but in the complete history of all of us.
My college education was actually pocket change.The friends who graduated from high school with me, and elected not to continue with their education found jobs that provided a living wage.
This was a country that was not in the top ten of everything, it was number one in all that was measured.Continue Reading...
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