Targeting POTENTIAL

It's a real mix here of people who were targeted by Ns/Ps (a) when they were successful or (b)when they only had the *POTENTIAL* to be successful.

In my case, the ex-Psych prof targeted me because I was a student... like him, I had POTENTIAL, but volunteering at a local school&writing in the college paper were straws that broke his camel's back. The ex-P saw me as an extension of himself. He saw himself as a POTENTIAL philosopher, not an actual one. Don't worry... he hasn't accomplished ANYTHING. He hasn't become a famous philosopher in the past decade... but now he fancies himself a literature expert.

He once told me that he was planning to write a book about Augustine's "Confessions"&Wittgenstein. When I told my friends about it, he did the smear campaign of telling everyone I was crazy... then telling me he was only THINKING about writing the book, he wasn't actually penning it. You see, he had problems with follow-through. After I wrote my senior thesis on Augustine's "Confessions", he NEVER wrote about Augustine again... and we say here that Narcs don't get hurt? The article that got published the year after the final D&D was probably in the pipeline my junior year.... so he hadn't anticipated my next move, lucky him.

The ex-P wouldn't acknowledge my achievements... and he expected me not to acknowledge his. His girlfriend was a curator... whether she's accomplished anything, I don't know. He D&D'd his colleagues... one's a successful classical guitarist (he went to grad school with the ex-P), another leads a workshop for teachers. He sticks close to his Daddy... not unlike my baby nephew.

It's like with the ex-P, my achievements were (and are) like garlic to a vampire... and my life so far is like Olive Garden with its endless garlic bread.

What is it with some Ns/Ps who target those who merely have potential, compared to those who target the successful?