o god (!) pun intended - now I see
However, phrases such as "contemplating one's navel" or "navel-gazing" are frequently used, usually in jocular fashion, to refer to self-absorbed pursuits.
what, no one on AB knows what staring at your belly button means?
wow !
ho hum - be educated everyone! it has got a greek name ( of course) ompholskepsis
I HAD thought you proles ( Lozza excluded ) had all missed the rather er obvious quote from Shakespeare ( dead white poet d. `1616) - Hamlet act 1 sc 3
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
I thought it rather obvious myself but ho hum this is a normal day on AB !