HOW TO SLAY A VAMPIRE – PART #2

A Survival Guide To Defeating The Suckers and Avoid Becoming A Zombie

First off, thanks everyone for the great feedback we received to Part #1 of this article. Seems like it rattled some cages (just as it was supposed to).
That’s where we looked at the major reason many people feel like they are getting nowhere in life.
Turns out there are a lot of vampires out there – those soulless, stone-cold creatures who go around destroying the hopes and dreams of others just so they can feel good about their own inability or unwillingness to succeed in life.
So we gave our readers a Vampire Slayer Kit – a means to absolutely identify those people in their life that are sucking out their happiness so they can put a stake right through their heart.
And remove them from their lives forever.
Using this Kit will turn out to be an essential life saver IF you want to be happy, prosperous, serene and successful.
So stop screwing around. Check out Part #1, and then come back for more.
Here is Part 2.

VAMPIRES REGULARLY PUT YOU DOWN

Do you know anyone who constantly analyses your dreams and keeps pouring waves of negativity on them?

You know the kind of person.

Someone that, when told about your next project or the next thing you would love to do, always seems to instantly bring up all the crap in the world that might happen if things go awry, should you proceed with your plans.

You also might have noticed that, funnily enough these people appear to be experts at your shit.

Notwithstanding the fact that, despite their superior knowledge, they are waist deep in their own poopie pile.

Somehow, these people seem to have encyclopedic knowledge of what you need to do and an unbridled eagerness to force the information they have down your gullet.

Just so they can “put you in the right direction”.

They will (with obvious relish) tell you all the bad things that will happen if you go ahead with your dreams.

And why you should do what they think is best for you, instead.

Seriously, if they knew where they were going as much as they would like you to think they are, why aren’t they on the cover of Time or Forbes? Or even SmartAss Illustrated?

It’s time to see these pseudo geniuses for the losers they really are.

So – never allow others to define your dreams for you.

You and you alone are the architect of your own accomplishments.

Because what these vamps are actually doing is trying to impose their own limitations and fears on you.

Believe in who you are, live your own dreams and go for what you are passionate about.

The only people who will object to this are those who are terrified of your accomplishments.

And who absolutely do not want you to succeed.

Avoid these leeches like the ten plagues of Egypt.

VAMPIRES CAGE YOU IN

A relationship is never about being forced to stay.

It’s about freedom.

It’s about having the choice to go but knowing that staying makes you happier and stronger.

The person who truly loves you will gently point you in the right direction, but allow you to make your own choices in the end.

They will never rope you in and tie you down.

Why would they need to?

Being happy where you are will mean you will never even want to leave what is giving you the happiness you need.

If you feel compelled to stay in any relationship, for any reason, then you can bet something is not right.

When someone’s only way to keep you close is to tie you down, this just exposes how massively insecure they are.

Which will obviously transfer back onto you. And make YOU insecure. And dependent on your captor and controller.

Don’t be anybody’s caged prize.

You are worth so much more than being someone’s object to be used for their own vicarious projections.

VAMPIRES LOVE COMPANY

Negative people are like a noxious cloud of contagion.

They infect everyone they touch.

More often than not, their negativity is not directed solely at you, but at everyone and everything within their sphere of influence.

It is their way of being and reacting to their entire surroundings.

Unfortunately, if engaged in, negativity tends to poison the fortitude of even the strongest of us.

It doesn’t matter how resilient you are – if left unchecked, constant negativity will eventually wear you down.

So, while you have no control over the negative things people say (well, not unless you have no problem smacking them cheerfully across the mouth), you absolutely do have complete power over how you let them affect you.

You will not believe how many positive things happen when you remove negative people from your life.

Simply because you leave so much more space for beautiful things when you have zero tolerance for any darkness in your day.

Whatever the effort it takes to accomplish this, it is rewarded many times over by the sheer opportunities that crowd into your life when the contagion is gone.

Unless you really want to join the vampire legions yourself, that is.

VAMPIRES WILL ALWAYS GIVE YOU THE VERSION OF REALITY THAT SUITS THEM

Family, friends and lovers interact with a different degree of love, with each relationship level mirroring the quality and depth of the love that defines it.

However, the basic principle of love is always the same in all interactions.

It’s still love in the end. And no relationship can survive without its respective degree of love.

And one of the basic principles that love is built on is truth.

Love cannot and will not survive without the truth.

Lying, in any relationship, effectively destroys it.

You know the old ditty – fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Being lied to once is bad judgment on the part of the liar. A way of showing you that you really mean nothing to them.

But giving someone the opportunity to lie to you twice, makes you just as guilty of self sabotage, and wantonly inflicting damage upon yourself.

And does anyone really need that kind of pain?

Forgiveness is a virtue, but once broken, something as precious as trust needs to be earned and not be given as a gift.

Or demanded as one.

Any promises made to rectify mistakes, guarantees given for making things better, and assurances of delivering a quality relationship need to be taken very seriously.

Yet, far too often, are used very gratuitously.

Words are cheap, mister!

How can you ever trust someone who repeatedly does not deliver on promises made?

It is indeed far better to be alone, than to be a fool.

VAMPIRES TEACH YOU TO JUDGE

In their 1998 hit song “What It’s Like”, Everlast very succinctly underlined the hollowness about judging others.

Regardless of how highly inflated our opinions of ourselves are, we are never in any position to judge anybody else.

If truth be told, we are all pilgrims walking on the same road. Each one of us is at a different stage in our journey, but no one is better than anyone else.

Keep this in mind.

When someone judges you, it says more about them, than it does about you.

So do not allow anyone to misdirect your appreciation of people, based on their appearance, financial or social status, skin color or race, or even reputation.

You will miss out on almost everything there could be to discover about others if you judge people in so shallow a manner.

The beauty of life lies, after all, in its diversity.

Everyone should be given a chance. A guarded chance, perhaps, but a chance nonetheless.

Do not allow anyone to steal the wonder of discovery from you.

VAMPIRES COME RIDING THE GREEN EYED MONSTER

In conjunction with lies, envy can never be part of any loving relationship.

Envy is usually one of the symptoms that manifests when someone fears your abilities, and, by extension, your successes.

It serves as the replacement emotion vampires utilize when they are unable, for whatever reason, to believe in themselves enough to achieve anything of worth in their darkened lives.

Their only form of release is to be envious of any visible degree of success in anyone else.

Thereby all hopes and plans for success must be destroyed before they materialize.

Yes, including YOUR hopes and dreams.

And this needs to be done by employing any means of minimizing or totally obviating your accomplishments.

Envy is never about admiration.

It’s all about hate.

A hate that is directed at you, but is actually an offshoot of a hate someone has towards themselves, and their own limitations.

And nothing poisons your happiness quite as quickly as abhorrence.

Keep it out of your life by ANY means necessary.

Yes, including forcibly stuffing garlic in people’s mouths, and driving wooden stakes through their heart.

VAMPIRES WANT TO CHANGE YOU TO WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO BE

Love can never be controlling.

It can never be demanding, or forceful.

Above all, love can never coerce people to be what someone else wants them to be.

Some people love controlling others. They need to be the ones in charge of a relationship.

Equality for these people actually means a loss of control (from their point of view), instead of an opportunity for mutual growth.

In their own perverted way of seeing the world, they need to be in command, moulding others into their own puppets.

Forceful control is how the weak try to manipulate others.

They need to see others conforming to their own way of seeing the universe in order to feel they are in a position of power.

Never allow anyone to make you into someone that you are not.

Do not be anyone’s marionette.

You are your own person.

People who truly love you will always treat you as their equal. They are not afraid of motivating you and pushing you forward to establishing your own accomplishments.

Your success does not make them feel bad about themselves.

Indeed, seeing you triumph and grow is a manifestation of their love.

It’s always better to go through the discomfort of ejecting a wannabe puppet master from your life, rather than the pain of putting the pieces of yourself together after someone has broken you down.

Always spend as much time as you can with those people who love you for who you are, and who constantly push you to be the best version of yourself you could ever be.