The Bluestocking 2022-23

Katelyn Cai | Grade 12 Narcissus But is it such a terrible thing?

I thought that we were all beautiful, that self-love was praised.

Narcissus was a man, a beautiful one at that.

Was he wrong to admire himself, to gaze upon his reflection until his death?

I thought that we were all worthy of being loved, that we deserved to be loved

if not by someone else, why not ourselves?

His pool was already full, and he was enough for himself.