2.4. Dependence on the role and the result

In addition, one  who makes self-fulfillment an existential goal risks, without realizing it, becoming dependent on quite a few things, situations, persons, environments… First of all his/her respect depends on the role she fills and the context in which she can show her talents. Separated from one and the other, she no longer finds herself and feels a nothingness.  She herself will become more and more needy, excessively, of positive results and social acceptance, fearing lack of success as a personal failure and being extremely attentive to her social image as that which gives her identity, all that that means (careerism, protagonism, competitiveness, and rivalry in relationships, envy and jealousy…).  Obviously she will have big problems in recognizing her own moral limitations and in living an authentic awareness of sin, because it would abase her self-respect too much, with the consequence of never again experiencing the mercy of the Eternal One, and therefore, becoming, in practice, an anti-social being.