Vampires

There's been countless upon countless of speculations of vampires, esspecially nowadays. The Twlight series launched the stories of vampires into another realm. They are probabaly the most popular of all mythical creatures today.

To define a vampire is a very hard thing. As I have not met an actual vampire, I cannot truely say what is fact or not. Older stories show vampires as blood-sucking mosters that are spawns of the devil and altogether evil. It is not until earier times such as now where vampires are shown in a different light, not as mosters, but only beings that are perhaps not very different from humans.

I'll start with the similarites. ALL stories agree on one thing: vampires live off of blood. It's the defining thing of a vampire. Now, there are stories, such as Cirque Du Freak, that say vampires also can eat human foo, but the basis of blood is always there. It's the 'lifeforce' persay. If one would actually think about it, it almost sounds repulsive. Drinking BLOOD? If you saw someone you knew, a family member perhaps, bite someone's arm and started drinking their blood, what on earth would you think?? You'd probabaly run! While reading and seeing these vampire stories, it's easy to forget that fact, but most people would find it sickening. However, think of this. I don't think many people realize it. Blood is the absolute foundation of a human body. It carries your life. Literally. Without it, humans would cease to exist. Period. We need blood to live. So it's VERY symbolic. A vampire feeds on the life-force of a human to sustain their own life. So, in thinking about that, a vampire cannot sustain a life-force of their own, and so must find someone who can, namely humans. Blood is the life of all things and vampires feed on blood. They feed to continue their own lives.

Besides drinking blood, the stories vary dramatically. MOST include sunlight. Vampires, for one reason or another, cannot go out in the sunlight. If you take in consideration another part of these stories, it would perhaps make a lot of sense. Nearly every vampire story tells of extordiary abilities they have. Super speed, strength, senses, etc. So, if one had super sense and stepped out into the sunlight, it would be excruciating! The glare of the sun would be double, triple, ten times what we humans see. Another thing that might contribute to the sunlight stories is simply the fact of trying to stay hidden. Out of every single mythical creature, the vampire is one of the most nutorious for being hunted down. Vampire hunters. ESSPECIALLY in older days. People would train their ENTIRE lives, commited to hunting down these 'demons.' And so, if you were a vampire and being hunted like this, I don't really think you'd go around walking in the daylight. The cover of night is always the best hiding place.

From here the stories muddle. When hearing how to kill a vampire you get a hundred different answers. The all popular stake through the heart, holy water, crosses, cutting the head off, ripping them to peices, or some say that just a bullet can do the job. In this issue, I cannot offer much insight since I do not know. I do believe that vampires are incredibly stronger, faster, and and better physically then humans in every way. While I do not know, to kill a vampire can be NO easy task. But as I said, I've never met one so I can't say for sure. And even if I did, I have absolutely no desire to kill them so I wouldn't mind not knowing.

Most of the older stories(when I mean older, I mean like 1800s and such) say vampires are demons that come from hell and slaughter all in their path. I do not agree with this in any sense whatsoever. Think of it this way. Lions are a common thing people know of. Everyone knows what a lion is. The hunt and eat meat, live in the savanna, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. Now, every once in a while, there's a story of rouge lions that aquire a taste of human blood. They attack villages and kill dozens of people. This might continue for a while before eventually humans win and the lion is killed. Now, after this lion has killed dozens of people, lions are not labeled as demons and every one of them is hunted down! So... why not? What is it different then a lion hunting, killing, and eating humans and a vampire drinking blood? Now, whether vampires kill humans, I do not know. Again, I have not met one, so I can't say. Whether they kill the human or simply just drink a little, who can say. So, where's the difference? Don't humans have serial killers? Is every human hunted down and killed because one went 'crazy'? Why not? Because it's not their fault. So if vampires do/did exist and there was a small group of them and one turned into a serial killer, why would the whole group be hunted down? Was it thier fault? Should we kill the entire family and all the friends of a serial killer? NO! That's rediculous! Everyone knows it's not their fault. Why is the entire name of 'vampire' stained? Those who were right in their minds and stayed hidden were never known about. The only ones that humans saw were the killers who came out of hidding.

There are many more things I could write about but, if I continued, this would be an insanly long post(if it isn't already). No doubt I'll have more to add later in time. Vampires will always hold the highest amount of respect from me. Among all mythical things, they are the one I wish the most that I could meet. But yes, who would trust a human? *sigh* Who knows. The future is not written in stone. Perhaps. Perhaps.

Well, this is all for now. I bid thee all farewell. Sorry for such the long post. Tomarrow I'll do write some more on those who dwell in the realm in the mystical.

Goodnight world.
~YinYang