The Vampire

What do we have when we take the fangs and the gory lore away? An individual fixated, obsessed with taking from others. But they don’t just take a little bit, they take it all.

You know when we get obsessed with a new tv show and we get into a tiny obsession because we’ve found something in it that identifies with us so deeply, that we obsess over this article of media, to the point that we leave no crumbs. We’ve watched every interview on the cast members of the show, we’ve seen every episode of the show, we know all about what the writer and director are doing with their lives now, and what they did before their career took off. We know all the subplots, and we’ve seen all the behind the scenes footage. We even know the tea about what happened on set when they filmed that one episode…

Okay, honestly this seems harmless. You’ll think to yourself, hey it’s just something I’m interested in. My little sister isn’t obsessed, she’s just really interested in this thing. But we're not talking about Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer here, we're talking about when it comes to the commerce of people. Energy even. What if someone consumes every drop of your life. There will come a point where that vampire will start to think they’re you, they’ll think they have what you have, because after all now, they do have your blood running through their veins.

Energy vampire is a term that has been popularized with the rise of new age spirituality as a way to bring awareness to other people taking something from us. “Oh no!” “Watch out!”. But girl, what if you are the energy vampire?

Do you have a sense that there’s just something missing in you that you’ll only be able to get from making friends? Acceptance? Love? Support? Confidence? If I just had friends who were like me I would feel comfortable doing or being who I want to be. Do you have the sense that you have a deficit, something that you’ve told yourself that you don’t have over and over that you’ve convinced yourself that you can only get it from other people, or somewhere outside of yourself.

At one point in your life, when you were a child, you were literally only able to get your needs met from the people around you. You needed their food, their warmth and their love to survive. And those people may have fallen short, but that doesn't mean you have to keep holding those short sticks.

And while we need some things from our social groups, and from other human connections you must remember that your gripping desirous need for love is not dependent on what you can get from someone else. You generate that love for yourself, create that wholeness from within, from source, from God, so that you don’t drain the people around you like a vampire will drain the blood from every neck in town.