Firstly, your messages are stellar. Right to the point going into and out of parables and fables even current fiction then alas, you arrive where complexity meets critical thinking. I embrace the style and your wisdom. Secondly, this treatise has taken a notion too far as I see it. The notion that each person is love or not but love nevertheless. Not someplace in the New Testament we find the belief that a cheek deserves another. The hard at work with their high level manipulation , the mentally ill pathological narc deserves a break or better yet, our love in return. It sounds as if you have let your defenses down. Is that accurate? As well as your typical open eyed reality. Think about it.

Can you love and love no matter or embrace the humanhood of a individual without deeming the intentions of the individual who has left a trail of damaged souls. Kind souls at that, now deprived of their previous world view due to the gaslighting pathology of a tainted, twisted, alien mind....who you deem needs love. Like the bank robber who kills and wounds all in his path, the destitute individual takes what he deems entitled to, and then after his escape, counts his bounty and awaits the next caper. This person must first be stopped, dead in his nefarious intentions, before you can ever attempt to convince him there is a better way. Narcs are beasts on a good day. Facts support this. And facts compounded create universal truths. Love is a universal wish and want, but to possess meaningfully is not. NO one is entitled to it. NO, that is what fairy tales are for. Life is about creating. And earning. And better yet, being. And honesty so. Narcs deconstructed were never that way.

Born into a alien world they arrived on the hunt. Like all predators. they seek what others can not comprehend. Love is a wondersome emotion, or better yet, act....none of which the narc was endowed with or responsible for at birth, like the color of their eyes or hair or height or skin. Love them, so what. That is not what they are seeking. Not really. Not ever. Or if rarely an exception comes your way, take heed. It might just be you are being gaslighted into a state of unconsciousness.

If their environment was lacking then what? The individual merged into and out of it with the tools they were born with. That simple, or as complex as you like while nevertheless ... love being a feeling or wondersome sight while not what they can appreciate, for like all creatures on the Serengeti, life to the narcissist is a day by day seeking what suits instincts sans a sense of others as anything but an ally or prey. Never love or be such.

Thanks again for your sage advice and the prose that creates such stellar work.

Eric