They worsen with age.
You’d think that time will gift them the incentive to self-reflect, but they don’t. Unless some otherworldly calamity shakes their world, they only get more desperate for validation, attention and more eyes to look at their grandeur performance whenever they enter a room.
Actually, they don’t see themselves aging and pay no mind to the fact their human demise is near. Like naive children, they will repeatedly delude themselves into thinking they’re still young and hip. Might even engage with people who are much younger than them juxtaposed to people their own age.
Infiltrating even the younger spaces, the narcissist will entertain surfing, bar hoping, drinking and partake in narcotic substances. Generally, partying type of behaviors.
When it comes to pursuing relationships, they will seek out young men or women to take advantage of or use a supply. It’s the only practice where they directly benefit from using using their age to lure potential partners. It’s essentially a manipulative power dynamic.
However, when they are in the presence of younger groups, they put on the pretense that they are the same age(s). Even going on to brag that they “fit in”, albeit poorly.
And because they are desperate, they will also latch onto anyone who moves in their direction or fulfills their validation tank. Standards also lower with age, so you can only imagine how much lower they are in hindsight.
Another misfortune, yet interesting dichotomy they bring into interpersonal relationships is that the aging narcissist is an effective cheater and better liar. They grow bored much quicker with whoever they involve themselves with, looking for the next jolt of excitement. Hopping from one partner to the next. Sometimes will string some along to secure a constant rotation of supply.
It is terrifying that they cannot be alone.
In their minds, they remain deeply infatuated with ideas that mirror that of a child — believing they can become the best A-list celebrity, musician, writer, acquire immense wealth, etc. All of this magical thinking is nothing more than empty words that have zero to no backing to them. After all, they couldn’t because they were too busy…
