Instead, he feels that he is the centre and the axis of his Universe, that all things and happenstances revolve around him and that disintegration would ensue if he were to disappear or to lose interest in someone or in something. He is convinced, for instance, that he is the main, if not the only, topic of discussion in his absence. He is often surprised and offended to learn that he was not even mentioned in a discussion. The narcissist is an omnivore. He devours and digests experiences and people, sights and smells, bodies and words, books and films, sounds and achievements, his work and his leisure, his pleasure and his possessions.
Classic narcissists interact with the world as predators do with their prey.
They want to do it all, own it all, be everywhere, experience everything. They cannot delay gratification. It is the discovery that the narcissist is NOT perfect, or ideal, or complete - that does him in. Waste of potential, waste of opportunities, waste of emotions, a wasteland of arid addiction and futile pursuit. Narcissists are as gifted as they come.