Justifying Attention Seekers
Humans are social beings. However some are in constant need of external acknowledgement in the form of attention to gain their daily dose of self-esteem. Even if sometimes this seems like a rather intolerable disease in desperate need of a fix, I can assure you with the borrowed assurance of all attention seekers worldwide that you are wrong. Attention seeking is an art and like most art, it comes in all shapes and sizes. The variant nature of this particular species is categorised according to their variant attention seeking ways. However, don't be so quick to judge. After 'extensive research' on the aforementioned variants, here are the classifications justifying their nature-
The narcissist: These people are rather the more focused type who know exactly how they deserve to be rewarded for a particular deed and will accept nothing short of the expected amount. Moreover, these people make a stand for their views of themselves as a 'superior' by bluntly throwing out comebacks at anyone and everyone who dares to demean their ways. Even if it admittedly represents traits of plain douchery, these are undeniable characteristics that leaders have possesed over the years, irrespective of how they've ended up later.
The exaggerator: The name here gives it away. These people exaggerate events and emotions and often portray relationships as more intimate than they actually are. Now to focus on the positives, their exaggeration gives them the upper hand where influence is a concern. Agree with me or not but these people usually have the quality of being able to convince people better through their exaggerated ways of story telling which often means that they will potentially be good at managing people, not that they should.
The rescuer: Rescuers rescue people. The attention seeking aspect of their being often dominates their motive behind volunteering to assist but help IS still help. So looking at the bright side, these people go out of their way to reach out to others in times of misery, illness, misfortune and the like. So I guess the aspect of their motives being attainment of positive attention as a result may be ignored and forgiven to an extent. Note that all rescuers aren't attention seekers and vice versa.
The sufferer: These people usually nag on about both their real or often made-up life problems in order to gain sympathy. This species, reputed as the ones having the 'poor me' label, have the upside of actually being tolerant towards their own existing problems to such an extent that they feel comfortable in creating new ones of their own. They are true inspirations to all us 'mediocrities' who have trouble juggling with the clearly less complicated lives that we possess. We should truly learn from their resiliance and ability to deal with both real and made-up problems alike.
Excessive attention seeking is a scientifically proven disease without a cure. Or maybe I just made the whole thing up to gain your attention. You'll never know.The only way to tackle it is to plain ignore it. Just like you should've ignored this whole article from the start.
Veronica Gomes is a devout Coldplayer and Sherlockian who is convinced her dog has secret pet parties at her place when she's not around. Email her at gomesveronica1997@gmail.com