h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

'I'm an emotional vampire.' It's a phrase that's been stuck in my head for some time.
This is a page a search for 'emotional vampire' picked up.
http://psy.rin.ru/eng/article/144-101.html

What I was looking for was the rest of the quote. 'A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?' - Sean Bateman

There's another one 'I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger.' - Viktor

'Nobody knows anyone. You will never ever know me.' - Lauren Hynde

A little later -
"Sean Bateman: No one ever ever knows anyone. You're not ever gonna know me.
Paul: What the hell does that mean?
Sean Bateman: It means, Paul, you're not ever gonna know me. Deal with it. Figure it out."

'I'm an emotional vampire.'

Twaddle!

The phrase is one I can identify with. But the meaning it has to me is not wasn't informed by the traits described by that webpage. But I think my behaviours have much the smae shape and impact as those ones.

I wouldn't worry too much. Viking scored 22 out of 25!!!

zdt

"I think my behaviours have much the smae shape and impact as those ones."

I wouldn't have said so.

I may have got it wrong; but i think that "test" is one for other people to do "about" a person, not for the person to do themself 'cos most people would err on the side of underplaying their good points.

I skimmed through it in regard to viking's apparent behaviour; i will do it again in regard to how i see my own...

zdt

I reckon i got 10 out of 25.

zdt