Dear Daniel Wong Ching Kiong:

By “practical business” I meant daily practical business, from keeping your body as healthy as possible, your living area orderly enough to allow effective functioning, budgeting of money so to maintain yourself adequately.

Regarding labeling yourself as a Narcissist- better if you avoid that labeling. What you described, viewing yourself “as a secret genius”, that nobody can understand you and the fact that you don’t socialize or connect to other people, all this does not mean you are a narcissist. It just means, I believe, that you imagine great things for yourself (as I have in my youth) and that you are afraid those things will not come true.

Regarding your last paragraph: aim, over time, to develop your existing independent thinking, understanding that a whole lot of what others claim to be true, what society promotes, is not true. For example: it is your primary responsibility to keep yourself as healthy as possible. Therefore, it is your … job to NOT take a job that is likely to make you sick.

If you work in a dangerous environment for a long time and get sick, chronically or fatally sick, what good will society’s acceptance of you do for you?

Often enough we are faced with choices where none of the options is pleasant. We have to then choose the better one of the two.

anita