Spiritual Vampires: a story of truth

Here I sit, among these free feeding Spiritual Vampires. They’re merely looking
for ways for themselves to benefit from someone else. The amount of money I get
paid for the meaningless work I do does not, in anyway, compensate for the
anguish and loathing that I experience everyday.

What is a spiritual vampire, you ask? A creature that was never mentioned when
we were children, sure we heard about boogey men and other monsters of the
night, but we were never informed about these creatures that haunt us in days
of our adult lives. A much more dangerous inhabitant than those frequented by
fairly tales.

Lack of empathy and common human interests are the cause for these hollow
hearted beings who lurk around every corner, freely in the bright of day, worse
than any villain or monster cooked up by Hollywood, worse because these
creatures exist in our everyday lives. Garlic and crosses don’t do anything for
these vampires. Ignoring them is the one thing that actually pains them,
bruises their egos, but not to worry, they'll just wander off and find someone
else to listen to their stories.

Spiritual vampires of course converse the best with their own kind. They just
play off of each others stories, not really paying attention, just enough where
they can relate with a story of their own. About, you’ve guessed it, them!
Everyone interacts with an SV at some stage in their adult lives, whether they
know it or not is a different story.

Most times if you’re walking away from the conversation shaking your head and
wondering what the hell happened, you’ve just had an encounter with what I
refer to as a “Spiritual Vampire”, never able to keep a conversation going,
unless it's about them. No matter what the topic, a true spiritual vampire can
always turn the topic to what they would have done, or a similar situation that
involved them. It's what they do best.

Even if you have a problem and they appear to want to help, all that will come
of it is, them, half listening, nodding their heads and then totally changing
the subject to something more engaging, something that doesn’t depress them or
make them uncomfortable.

They are real and sometimes easily recognizable, other times they blend in. You
might never see them coming, but in most cases if you have read this and don’t
have the smallest idea what I'm taking about, then it's pretty obvious....I'm
talking about you