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Spotting Vampires Is Easy When You Know The Characteristics

See Them Before They Suck A Soul Out Of Your Life

By Jason Ray Morton Published 2 years ago 6 min read
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Before you are unknowingly guilty of allowing a vampire to suck life-blood from you, do you know the vampires in your world? Look around at your world, your daily routine, and imagine that you can see their teeth before they show them to you. Forget everything you know or think you know about vampires. To defeat vampires, we have to accept that they are a part of our society and that they will do us nothing but harm.

Vampires Suck

It’s no surprise that vampires suck. It’s in their nature. The creature, in folklore, subsists by feeding on the living’s essence. Vampires can take many forms. They appear in lore as bats, wolves, demons, and undead people. The shapeshifting ability of a vampire gives vampires the ability to mask their form.

What Bram Stoker's Dracula didn’t tell us about Vampires makes dealing with a problem in today's society. We can’t fight against what we can't see. However, if you can identify the vampiric characteristics of those you encounter, you’ll have a better chance of conquering the modern-day vampires.

Vampires Are Takers

If you’re looking out for vampires in your life, be mindful of those that are takers. Always remember the basic characteristics of a vampire, and you’ll be more mindful of them when they appear to you.

Vampires in the workplace are a common occurrence. Have you encountered someone in the workplace that constantly takes credit for things they have nothing to do with accomplishing? Have you ever had a new boss come into the picture? One that didn’t belong there? Did that boss suck the morale right out of the ranks?

There are always those employees in the workplace that are sucking the soul of a team of people. They are the problem employees that never seem to get dealt with, or as they’re commonly known, the toxic employees. They create more drama than they are worth by being typically lazy in their approach to the task at hand, only paying attention to the social aspects of the job. They do the bare minimum of work so they can focus their energies elsewhere, and become a thorn in the sides of the harder working staff.

Vampires in the workplace exist from the top of the hierarchy to the bottom, the newest employees. They require so much extra energy to work with or navigate around that everyone is suddenly beaten, burned out, and not seeing a great future in the workplace.

Vampires In Relationships. We’ve all had relationships that felt uneven. We start out feeling the excitement and energy of a new relationship. Then, as things start to settle and the newness wears off, we realize that we’re in a relationship and if we’re giving 50% our partners only give 25%.

Vampires are people that show promise to attract others to them. That promise is usually based on a false premise. When you meet someone that appears to be goal orientated, driven, and ambitious; was it only an act they put on to satisfy people, or did they truly believe what they were saying?

The ones that don’t truly believe what they’re saying, or are not committed to the causes they profess to be, are people that intentionally or not, drain the energy from you in a relationship. The excitement and promise of that new friendship, the new romance, quickly dwindles to a sparkless memory of what could have been.

Don’t Follow Vampires

Not only will a vampire suck the essence from you in your life, but they also are not to be followed. There is a reason that vampires don’t cast a shadow. Vampires are not something for us to get out from under.

Vampires don’t have good intentions in mind for the people in their orbit. The vampires aren’t going to be good mentors. There won’t be a vampire in your life that helps you to progress, that tries to push for your success or helps you to become a better person. Vampires only have one concern. Their success as they continue to eat up the soul of everything good around them.

Take the built young stud that just started in the office or that new girl that looks like she belongs in Hollywood. How much energy bleeds out of the room, or from your daily goals, just because they are present? They are getting by on their looks, and if you’re lucky, have some of the talent necessary to succeed. But, have you noticed the energy spent on them by the rest of the workforce? They’re sucking the energy, the essence of things, from the room.

What To Do About Vampires

Much like the great vampire hunters, or even Buffy The Vampire Slayer, it’s inherent to keep your “ass” covered when it comes to vampires in the world. If the vampire affecting your life is affecting your life at work, making sure that you tread cautiously around them is very important. Don’t engage vampires in the workplace in an aggressive fashion with two things. No, I’m not referencing a stake or holy water.

Witnesses, and justification. If you have to take an aggressive stance with a vampire in the workplace do it in a setting with a witness. If you are a part of a union shop or have a union representative, addressing any grievances with the vampire is something you want to talk over with the union rep. Take them with you for a meeting or discussion about the issues you see when pointing out what they’re doing that’s sucking the morale or energy from your workplace.

In relationships, we have to be mindful of how deep into a relationship we are and that it’s mutually beneficial. When it only benefits one party in the relationship, we have to make a decision, and sometimes it’ll be a tough one. But, anything less than being honest will make you guilty of settling.

Final Thoughts

Bram Stoker brought to life one of the darkest, scariest, and most notorious characters of the 19th century when he wrote Dracula. Little did he know that the lore of vampires would grow and evolve into the many iterations it has today. Sure, a stake through the heart, setting them on fire, holy water, and a cross may have protected people in the book. What do you do to protect yourself if a real vampire is affecting your life?

We have to be careful how much energy we put into toxic individuals and early on, when dealing with a vampiric character in life, how much we are going to tolerate before taking action. It’s important to keep yourself covered as there are always going to be people that suck the life from a room, from those around them, and a task or mission.

Don’t let the vampires of the world ruin your days or take away from your world. Meet them head-on and be prepared to justify your actions. Make sure you take credit when credit is due to you, identify when someone is negative, and curtail your exposure to that negative energy the vampire brings.

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About the Creator

Jason Ray Morton

I have always enjoyed writing and exploring new ideas, new beliefs, and the dreams that rattle around inside my head. I have enjoyed the current state of science, human progress, fantasy and existence and write about them when I can.

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