''David and the Energy vampire!''
You must have all read the story of David and Goliath but believe me this is a different story. Here, David is the Goliath and the villain is an all too powerful vampire, almost like the original David from David and Goliath.
Here is how it goes...
In a small village of faraway land, much before the earth was divided into countries, and when science had not established its foothold, people used to believe in the presence of demons and witches.
There was this young man named David in one such part of the world. He was a shepherd by profession(that makes him David Shepherd- not the umpire- I know, an unnecessary joke! Let me go on with story.!) and a pretty good one at that. He had a total of 10 sheep which he used to take everyday for grazing in the lush green pastures every morning. In the middle of the pasture was a giant rock which overlooked the entire pasture and David thought it was the perfect and the only place to keep a watch over the sheep.
One day while the sheep were busy grazing and David was day dreaming sitting on his favorite rock, he saw a strange image behind the bushes. As David went closer, he saw the image turned into that of an ugly old man. At first, David paid no attention to that man and went back and sat on his favorite rock overlooking the pasture.
But later, the man started to irritate David by disturbing him in his favourite past time- day dreaming, by throwing tiny pebbles near the rock. David was angry. He started to curse and abuse the old man and to his utter disbelief, the man started to become younger and stronger with each abuse that David sent his way. David was afraid as the old man was now becoming younger and more powerful and had started throwing even larger stones his way. David cursed him further, the man became stronger.
Afraid of further consequences, David ran away and reached his village. A wise man in the village heard the story patiently and then chuckled, ''Oh. That must be an energy vampire! Just go back and ignore him, he will disappear!''
David was confused but he had nobody to trust other than this wise man. So he went back to the pastures where his sheep were grazing and began doing what he knew best- Day dreaming! And to his utter bewilderment, in a span of a few minutes, the giant old man had become the size of those little men from Lilliput in Gulliver's travels. David was surprised but he decided not to pay any attention to that man and diverted his attention to his sheep and day dreaming as he had been advised by the wise man. Within a few hours, the old man completely disappeared.
At the end of the day, David went back to his village happily having a euphoric feeling of defeating the energy vampire!
But David was wrong. That was the first day, the Energy Vampire had made its presence felt.
Since that day, man has been grappling with the same problem- The Energy Vampires. giving undue attention to things which he should not...
According to the laws of thermodynamics, there is a constant flow of energy through our bodies and this energy may manifest itself in many forms- actions, words and sometimes even thoughts which I believe are perhaps the most ingenious creations- things that differentiate Homo sapiens from other animals in the hierarchy of evolution. Thoughts, which are like waves in an ocean keep on coming and striking the shores of our conscious minds at their own will many a times end up distracting us from our work. And most of these thoughts though appear involuntary on the surface are in fact our own indirect creation deep down. These thoughts come to us when we give undue importance to a certain object or a person or an event which might be trivial in the hindsight yet acts as a power sucking machine taking away our positive energies and leaving us powerless and casts a gloomy spell on us.
These are the ENERGY VAMPIRES.
They could be anything and anyone- an object or a person, or someone whose remote presence disturbs you and every time you think of them, a part of your energy evaporates and is sucked up by these energy vampires.
In David's case, it was this innocuous ugly old man who got onto his nerves and ended up irritating David. The more energy you give to thoughts about them, the more powerful and energy sucking they will become.
The earlier you are able to divert your thoughts, the better it is.
But I know this is difficult and we are all in some form and to some extent grappling with such everyday problems and that is what connects us on a deeper level as humans.
We might think and act differently, but our problems are humanely similar.
-Devashish Palkar
You must have all read the story of David and Goliath but believe me this is a different story. Here, David is the Goliath and the villain is an all too powerful vampire, almost like the original David from David and Goliath.
Here is how it goes...
In a small village of faraway land, much before the earth was divided into countries, and when science had not established its foothold, people used to believe in the presence of demons and witches.
There was this young man named David in one such part of the world. He was a shepherd by profession(that makes him David Shepherd- not the umpire- I know, an unnecessary joke! Let me go on with story.!) and a pretty good one at that. He had a total of 10 sheep which he used to take everyday for grazing in the lush green pastures every morning. In the middle of the pasture was a giant rock which overlooked the entire pasture and David thought it was the perfect and the only place to keep a watch over the sheep.
One day while the sheep were busy grazing and David was day dreaming sitting on his favorite rock, he saw a strange image behind the bushes. As David went closer, he saw the image turned into that of an ugly old man. At first, David paid no attention to that man and went back and sat on his favorite rock overlooking the pasture.
But later, the man started to irritate David by disturbing him in his favourite past time- day dreaming, by throwing tiny pebbles near the rock. David was angry. He started to curse and abuse the old man and to his utter disbelief, the man started to become younger and stronger with each abuse that David sent his way. David was afraid as the old man was now becoming younger and more powerful and had started throwing even larger stones his way. David cursed him further, the man became stronger.
Afraid of further consequences, David ran away and reached his village. A wise man in the village heard the story patiently and then chuckled, ''Oh. That must be an energy vampire! Just go back and ignore him, he will disappear!''
David was confused but he had nobody to trust other than this wise man. So he went back to the pastures where his sheep were grazing and began doing what he knew best- Day dreaming! And to his utter bewilderment, in a span of a few minutes, the giant old man had become the size of those little men from Lilliput in Gulliver's travels. David was surprised but he decided not to pay any attention to that man and diverted his attention to his sheep and day dreaming as he had been advised by the wise man. Within a few hours, the old man completely disappeared.
At the end of the day, David went back to his village happily having a euphoric feeling of defeating the energy vampire!
But David was wrong. That was the first day, the Energy Vampire had made its presence felt.
Since that day, man has been grappling with the same problem- The Energy Vampires. giving undue attention to things which he should not...
According to the laws of thermodynamics, there is a constant flow of energy through our bodies and this energy may manifest itself in many forms- actions, words and sometimes even thoughts which I believe are perhaps the most ingenious creations- things that differentiate Homo sapiens from other animals in the hierarchy of evolution. Thoughts, which are like waves in an ocean keep on coming and striking the shores of our conscious minds at their own will many a times end up distracting us from our work. And most of these thoughts though appear involuntary on the surface are in fact our own indirect creation deep down. These thoughts come to us when we give undue importance to a certain object or a person or an event which might be trivial in the hindsight yet acts as a power sucking machine taking away our positive energies and leaving us powerless and casts a gloomy spell on us.
These are the ENERGY VAMPIRES.
They could be anything and anyone- an object or a person, or someone whose remote presence disturbs you and every time you think of them, a part of your energy evaporates and is sucked up by these energy vampires.
In David's case, it was this innocuous ugly old man who got onto his nerves and ended up irritating David. The more energy you give to thoughts about them, the more powerful and energy sucking they will become.
The earlier you are able to divert your thoughts, the better it is.
But I know this is difficult and we are all in some form and to some extent grappling with such everyday problems and that is what connects us on a deeper level as humans.
We might think and act differently, but our problems are humanely similar.
-Devashish Palkar
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