Narcissism

I was watching an entertainment news report about an actor who (after years of being in hiatus) was given an offer to do a movie which could have been his comeback project. After signing a contract with the movie outfit and after recieving a down payment for the said project he changed his mind. The reason behind the change of heart? The movie did not focus enough on the character that he would have played, his manager argued that if this was gonna be his comeback movie then one can infer to the fact that the whole storyline of the movie should have revolved around the actor's character. See now, this is very disturbing for me I guess I just have problems dealing with characters having an ego the size of the great state of Texas. I don't pretend to know the whole story but indeed if you examine the video of his manager's interview, I guess it speaks for itself. In contrast Jesus in the book of Philippians chapter two was the exact opposite, He is the Son of God yet He did not make such a big deal about it. Paul gives a rundown of the kind of humility that you would find in Jesus' character in his letter to the Philippian church.

Narcissism: an abnormal tendency to admire one's perfection (Webster's Dictionary).

Then Jesus said to His desciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, but yet forfiets his soul? Or what can man give in exchange for his soul?"

Matthew 16:24-26