Learning to love yourself is not necessarily a narcissistic ego trip. It is for some a survival method, a means to self-acceptance in order to avoid tipping over into total madness, that edge before you like a curse enkindled by your own fears. (Or is this exactly what a narcissist would say?)
that time of the day
fingers locked around elbows
him in the mirror
By Harris Coverley
5-7-5 Haiku Journal 