When people talk about energy vampires, they usually mean those close to us — individuals who constantly complain, demand attention, or live off other people’s emotions. But there is another kind of vampirism, far more widespread and systemic, that has long become part of everyday life and is rarely noticed.
It is about the systematic draining of human energy. About those who, year after year, take people’s attention, strength, health, and time — openly, publicly, and entirely legally. First and foremost, this applies to politicians.
Why do they need human energy? The answer is simple. To gain power and money. Votes, taxes, constant attention, and agreement with imposed agendas. When millions of people are involved, the principle of “a little from everyone” turns into a massive resource concentrated in the hands of a few.
And what does an ordinary person receive in return? If we are honest — almost nothing. Over time, dependence appears, along with constant tension and the feeling that you must always be alert, afraid, reacting. Many hopes turn out to be empty. Energy is lost. Health is lost. Attention is lost — the very attention that could have been directed toward loved ones, meaningful work, calm living, and creation.
Instead, a person exists in a stream of news, alarming messages, loud statements, and endless promises. Constant pressure becomes the background of life. People get so used to it that they stop noticing how much energy is spent simply on maintaining inner tension.
This raises a natural question: is it possible to protect oneself from this kind of vampirism? Not through slogans or struggle, but in a real way.
Perhaps the only path is to return to oneself and honestly acknowledge a simple fact: you are already a source of value. Every day you invest your energy into real life — into work, study, caring for parents, raising children, helping others, volunteering, and ordinary human actions. This energy is finite, and that is exactly why it is valuable. Often, the only reward for it is a quiet “thank you,” and that turns out to be enough.
At the same time, that same energy is constantly being drained by false and overheated news, empty statements, fear, a lack of clear prospects, and the feeling that nothing depends on you. Gradually, a person turns into a battery that powers someone else’s constructions.
It is worth imagining what would change if, at some point, a person calmly said to themselves: “Enough. I no longer want to be a source of energy for what destroys me and my life.” Without shouting, without protest — simply as an inner decision.
From there, the next step emerges naturally. When a person begins to recognize and fix their own contribution — to understand where their energy has gone and what it has produced. And then, at the moment of choice, they can ask a simple and honest question of those who seek their trust: this is my contribution, this is my energy. I invested it in creation, in good, in people. And what can you show me — besides words and promises? What are those promises based on?
From that moment on, energy vampirism stops working. Not because someone has won, but because a person has stopped being a source of nourishment for someone else’s illusions.