Have You heard the term "Vampires that suck the life and energy out of you"? Those negative, self absorbed and drama filled people!
My favorite, the people that can't be happy for the success or accomplishment of other.? You know the ones that leave the room when others congratulate or ask you about your achievements. You all know of these type of people, we all are acquainted with or have them in our life either by choice or by fault..
The older and more life experience I have it becomes more of a mystery as to why we tolerate such poisons to invade our lives.
Being a Mother of teenagers you of course see this type of behavior in the young people, it is in their DNA so to speak due to age and the lack of life experience. This is normal, this is expected.
What I find fascinating is why as adults do we let those vampire, energy suckers and selfish individuals dim our light of essentially joy and happiness?
Many studies have concluded that these type of toxic individuals you should extract from your life. I for one thought that was just mean! Dont those people need to be shown compassion as well as the one that brighten and fill our lives with extreme joy, right?? Wrong!!!
I have now seen the light! This last year I did an inventory of the people I have surrounded myself with, the people I have let close to my precious and most important priority, my family. When you step back and think about it, it is very easy to separate the ones who Lift, Support, Love with all their heart and make your life better because they are in it, from the people who rob you of your enjoyment, steal or minimize your dreams, the ones who you know you could never count on if your world came crashing down.
2011 I have focused on the Best and the Brightest. The loved ones that are 100% real! Those you know without a doubt have your back, you never have to question their intentions, their loyalties or their words. I tell you it is the greatest self examination I have yet to do. Along with holding on with the "death grip" to these special people in my life, the bad seed so to speak I have let go. Because of this purge I have felt more PEAcE & CALM than ever before.
One of my consistent lectures 2 my children is the importance of choosing friends wisely and the people they invite into their lives. Seeking out the good, honest and true. If I have said it once I have said it a zillion time, "it is better to have a small handful of people 2 surround yourself with that you can trust with your life, than several dozen with questionable intentions". If I am teaching my children that philosophy, why did it take me so long to get rid of the vampires in my own life?
I am now enjoying a Vampire FREE life & couldn't be happier.
Clarity is mine!
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