BITE ME IF YOU CAN

I AM SOO INTO VAMPIRES. I don’t know why. Let’s go back to where it all began. I soo sound vampiric! Haha..

When I was in 4^th year college and obviously not listening to lecture discussions, me and two closest friends were busy reading vamp novels while the professor was busy lecturing about tall structure kind of leadership or theories or whatever (obviously I was too engrossed in my reading that I can’t remember those lectures).

And thanks to an old high school buddy YEN (I must really drop the name for this is my way of giving her a distinction for her undying influence in my music and book reads. I was like a vamp book addict and she was my ‘drug’ pimp. Forgive the comparison. But it’s the closest I could think of. Wink!*)

She lent me the Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon. The said book was the sure fire of my still blazing addiction. I was introduced to the Dark-Hunter world as well as the Were’s and Dream’s. And the three of us (my two college BFFs and I) were the proverbial hooked, lined and sank with Acheron Parthenopaeus (A glorious fictional character of Kenyon. When the said character’s book Acheron was released, each of us grabbed a copy!)

Later on, we also met JR Ward and her Black Dagger Brotherhood. A totally new world with the Lessening Society and I really hated the lessers because Ward has a twisted humor of inserting lesser scenes when the protagonists are in the height of something! Haha..

Then I was introduced with Christine Feehan and her Carpathians. I even dug some research about the real location of the Carpathian Mountains. Totally hooked! Then I read Charlaine Harris’ undead series. The books were good reads but the HBO TV series True Blood was not that good (personal opinion of course!).

I also read other vamp authors and their series such as Lara Adrian, Kerrelyn Sparks, Angela Knight, L.A. Banks, and another author (I forgot the name, from Yen, and all I could remember amongst the nine books or so is the matriarch’s name Marguerite! GRR!) After an hour or so, I remembered! Lynsay Sands’ Argeneau family. Haha!

I only read Stephanie Mayer’s Twilight because I felt that everybody was reading and I’m the only one not, being a vamp junkie and all. My two BFFs were Kenyon Minions so they never attempted and frankly I was not too happy about the books. The movies were a-okay (personal opinion again! Twilight fans peace! LOL.)

I watched back in 2009 the first eps of Vampire Diaries (still running hit vamp tv series). I knew it was from LJ Smith’s books. I tried to read but I couldn’t appreciate much because the tv characters were too great (another personal opinion!) that the books seemed unreal to me. You know what I mean. Hence my addiction to Vamp Di and to its stars (that is mainly Ian Sommerhalder. He got a nice “about me” in Twitter. The dead guy on Lost now the undead on Vampire Diaries.)

See? I’m such a vamp addict. I know. No words can describe my folly but the terse word addiction. I just hope you know even just one of the above mentioned authors/tv series. If not, I totally sound like a lunatic to you. Haha.. The hell I care!

For those who are my fellow vampire addicts, Cheers! What do you want, Blood Choco, Blood Lite or simply O-negative? (Sparks novel has ‘blood’ drinks!)

But all these blabbers were mainly introduction for the type of vampirism common to all mankind. The EMOTIONAL VAMPIRISM.

EMOTIONAL VAMPIRES. These are the people who totally suck out your emotions. Leaving you an empty corpse/soul/heart.

I’ll give a few instances.

A.) When you happen to be the shock absorber of a friend. I enjoy listening to others rant about their problems. I listen. Sometimes they say, I listen well. But there are a few times when you had your saturation point. When you meet your limits. Because a friend is always telling the same problem and you are giving a sound advice but that thick-headed friend of yours keeps repeating his/her problem and makes you wanna scream, ‘YOU IDIOT, STOP IT!’

B.) When you enter an effing it’s complicated relationship. Take for example the case of my friend. She doesn’t want to commit. So she broke up with the guy. But the guy’s totally into her, he can’t take the separation so they agreed to a no commitment type of relationship. They are constantly communicating and all (just like any ordinary relationship though with no official “yes” statement). And she gets suffocated because the guy’s too over protective and constantly reminds her if she loves him. What the? Where in the hellish line of no commitment can’t he understand? (breathe in, breathe out!)

C.) When a person can make you feel guilty even if you did nothing/ nothing wrong. This is the nice part. Some were born to become the emotional vampires’ archetype. These are the guilt trippers. I happen to have a distant relative who lives a guilt tripping life. Lucky you if you happen to become the recipient! This person has the power to make you feel guilty and totally sap out your emotional stability. My solution?! A safe 50-mile distance. Getting the hell awaaaaay from my relative. For my sanity’s sake!

D.) I need not elaborate more because you know when you get emotionally drained. The feeling that you are at your lowest. To become emotionally incapacitated is the greatest weakness. For me, just maim the body but please don’t wither the soul.

With false bravado, I’m shouting, “For all the emo-vamps, bite me if you can!”

Note: Kenyon, Ward, Feehan and other authors have book series other than their vampire novels. It was not mentioned so to give emphasis about emotional vampirism. Title of the blog is also the title of a Sands’ novel. I think! Sometimes they all get mixed-up! (tongue in cheek!)