As I was reading the Stuck book (which is, incidentally, over now)... I was thinking of how when someone is drowning... or thinks they're drowning... or just thinks of thinking that they are drowning... that they reach out to anyone who swims by, desperate to keep their head above water and find something to hold onto, something solid. Not very good for the person swimming by however! I've heard of stories where the people swimming by have to fight off the drowning (or thinking they are drowning) person in order to keep their own heads above water...
And it doesn't just happen in the water... We attach ourselves to people like leeches sometimes, because they have something that we want... security, balance, joy, energy... And we try to suck it out of them, desperate to save our lives... at the expense of theirs... It's sort of a modern day Count Dracula thing... Vampires do exist!! They're just energy vampires... or joy vampires... or attention vampires... The trouble is... we all have the power to create our own energy and joy and attention and love... We just take the easy way out sometimes, and figure it's easier to suck it out of others than create it ourselves... That's a pretty cheap way to live life... and dishonest... and a lie...
How do you go through life? Creating energy and sharing it with others... or sucking other people dry?
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