What you have in common with serial killers ...

The thing about serial killers is that they are people much like you and me.

They differ in some key aspects though.

Serial killers are perfectionists

They know that they have to get away with murder… quite literally. For this matter they devise an impeccable personality. Quite so that their very existence is an alibi; you wouldn’t guess that he did it.

Serial killers have unblemished style and grace

They know their way around brands, looks and grace. Like that of a database. All in their head and not in their heart.

Which brings us to the next point.

Serial killers let go of themselves completely.

What and who they are is a secret they will take to their graves. You may shake their hand and feel a certain recognizable warmth in their skin and their smile. Yet they are simply not there. The image that you see is simply a mirror of yourself that has been put there quite surgically; for the purpose that one cannot see what is behind a mirror.

While the general public is distracted by adoring their vanity and narcissism in this mirror , the serial killer is secretly constructing his life with the precision of a eye surgeon. Infact… since he has let go of himself and others, he is anyone he choses to become; a luxury you so desperately seek in your own life.

Serial killers have rich internal lives

Behind the mirror you cannot see, there is a world which is unlike any other.

You will often find them day dreaming incessantly.
“Where do they go….?” one would think.

To a place where anything is possible. Where the impudence of childishness still exists along with innocence. The kind of world that only a child , unspoiled by the constant barrage of reality can dream of; again a quality you so desperately seek to retrieve.

He is happy in this place; you can see it from the lisp and grin at the end of his daydream.

References: Paul Bateman, American Psycho