“Don’t blame me, it’s just who I am,” he says, and I want to punch his stupid chiselled face. He always makes statements like that with a little chuckle, as if the disaster he spreads throughout the world is a little joke we share between us. Seeing how furious I am, he tries to reason with me, cocks his head, wears a gentle smile that I know he copied off someone else.
“People like the drama,” he says, “it shakes their lives up.”
“Some of them don’t have lives to shake up now,” I hiss back, to me this is a truth that obliterates the power of his smug smile; for him, it isn’t.
“And that’s ok too, the world needs a cull, right? It’s overpopulated.” I can see he’s bored now, he can’t be bothered to placate me, he’ll be moving on and lives will be devastated somewhere else. He flashes me another diamond smile and strides away. I wonder if he’ll ever be stopped.
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I’ve known the odd sociopath, and they’re pretty much as you describe. Add a cause that they can espouse and there’s every chance they can slip into psychopathy, one feels.
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Insightful way of summing it up 🙂 they are people to be careful around, for sure
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Hmmmm. Getting dark in here.
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I like it dark 😉
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Looking forward to darker then.
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This, oddly enough, reminds me of those mysterious beings that religions revolve around…
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Oh! I’ve been writing about one of them, so maybe that’s where it came from, perceptive thinking there lomosvox!
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I, too, looked at this in a religious light at first. I took this as a God/Devil exchange—which I supposed encapsulates the Hermetic idiom, As Above, So Below.
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Interesting idea, it definitely puts a good spin on it.
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Hey there – it’s me, different sign in name due to the whole SPAM thing, but I just had to comment to say, this is such a tight piece of work – so well worded and you’ve captured the essence, or at least one key aspect, of psychopathy, and as others have noted, it can be very odd and “danger zone” unsettling in dealing with these people. So great job here. 🙂
And as someone else noted: the whole “as above, so below” – aspect is really a wonderful layer to this too.
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Thank you! It always make me happy if you like my writing 🙂 Spam thing? Are you being spammed? That doesn’t sound good.
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I AM Spam 😉
LOL – apparently, something has “hooked” me into the wastelands – and here I was thinking I was “sweet and innocent” 😉
but this is old news …. now we see if things have sorted themselves out a bit.
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hmmm …. not this is screwed up, I’m logged in in another account but am showing up on your site as the old one???? Ah, please forgive the bugs up my butt!
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Heh, I wondered, but I’m content to go with the WordPress illogic flow, I know the twisted path it weaves 😉
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I think we all walk it several times in our outings 😉
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right, maybe now this has re-tripped the damn wire …. *sigh*
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So, wait, is this wordwitch? Whoever you are, your writing is great, but I’m not allowed to follow you, what twisted world is this? I’m confused, Tech Support! Someone call Tech Support!
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Eeep! Yes, it’s me – Pat, word witch – just hover over my gravatar then go the site, and then in the right hand corner, there is a box thingy and it opens the sidebar and you can follow – and hey, when you show up at the site, even in the right hand bottom corner, there should be an automatic WP thingy that says ‘follow’ …. crap and double crap …. let me know if you can’t figure it out or it’s something weird over here *sigh*
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ok doke, I’ll do that, hopefully see you there!
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you came, you saw, you hit follow – therefore you conquered! 😉
thanks and glad you hopped over 🙂
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The site looks mighty fine, I’ll be back when I get a moment… 🙂
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no worries or hurries …. just so you know where I’m hanging 😉
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This reminded me of a story I wrote ago about another sociopath, much like the one you described! Such fun to write a sociopath right?
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It’s interesting to get inside a head that is so different to mine (well, hopefully 😉 ) It is fun to imagine a life without the kind of consequences most of us live with. What/ where was your story?
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