Vampires are not Only in Fairytales

I love stories about vampires, werewolves, fairies, elves, and ogres. Sitting in a comfy chair with a latte and a biscotti watching a vampire movie or reading a fairytale is great for filling up the soul. Images of wonderful beasts relished, magical notions bring sighs, journeys of the heros send thrills, good triumphs over evil, and stardust is sprinkled everywhere.

Sitting in a restaurant with friends I misunderstand one friend. This misundstanding had me inviting a newcomer to our little party. The newcomer was newly divorced which immediately led me to have empathy for him. But this empathy evaporated as quickly as water thrown on red hot lava rocks. He talked about nothing but his houses and his money and how his stunning wife was going to get the million dollar house and how the lawyers were involved. But according to him she is happy because she will still be doing the botox, and shopping, and doing all the things that she does. And on and on he went about the material things. There were no feelings. He was quite rude about the whole thing.

This vampire of energy just kept sucking and sucking all the party out of our party. As my friend put it, he actually sucked the energy out of the table itself. I was amazed that one person could be invited to a table and not be interested in anyone at the table beyond what they did for a living. My friends were a lot politer than I was because at one point I made it clear that I was not happy at the way he was talking about his wife. He made it clear that he did not like me and left.

I have a philosophy. I try to only put things that I love into my body. And damned if I am going to let someone rip all the good energy that I am trying to invite around me. I was not going to sit around and listen to more bullshit. I have too many friends who put the good into the world. And when I have to sit and listen to someone who puts the bad stuff into the world I don't want to be around it. Hell I don't want to be around me when I put the bad stuff into the world!!! On reflection it may be how he deals with hurt. Regardless, I still choose not to be in his sucking energy flow. It takes me a while to refill my bucket. I don't have to give my energy away to people that I don't know and that I don't like. I choose to keep my energy for myself and for those people that I choose to give it away to that I feel need it.

While books on sucking vampires fill up my soul, the earth-bound sort suck at my soul. The garlic in my food didn't keep this one away, but a sharp, questioning tongue did. Thank you Rand(om) Musings for sharing with us the wonderful wine that helped lift our spirits again.