Smiling zombies brandishing bouquets, part of our spiritual evolution

Narcissists aren't attracted to people with nothing going for them. They parasitize individuals with qualities they don't possess; empathy, compassion and real not faux sensitivity. We are spiritually and psychologically fairly highly evolved and opposites attract. The universe, God, the Great Whatever, seems to be maximizing the deficiencies of one type to refine the other.

Immediately after an experience with a narc, we feel like half human, empty shells, throbbing with pain. This is how narcs feel all the time. It's the subsonic back beat of their distracted existence.

What we feel now, is what they are fighting all of the time. They CAN'T rise above it...but we can. Not only can we rise above it, we can go far beyond it. It isn't part of our essential being, so we can use the experience to help others who have been shattered by these people while we heal ourselves.

To understand "evil", one has to have been engaged by it, to be drawn right into it's vortex, to risk becoming like it, through a process of conversion and or contagion.

They are lost or fallen, to borrow from biblical parlance. And as they wander through the desert of a soulless existence, we should pause and reflect on how lucky we actually are to have escaped more or less intact with the new potential to experience quantum leaps in spiritual and emotional growth.