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Question: "The words old and vampire only seem to go together in the mythical version of vampire legends. At 50 years old, you seem to be one of the oldest vampires active in the community, on or off line. Why is it that you do not see any "old" vampires and how has ageing affected your vampirism?"

Greetings..

Getting "old" is something all living things go thru, that is experiencing the breakdown of tissue and the slowing or even loss of the ability to react to our environment. With those with vampirism, they are more sensitive to the environment around them and more impacted or affected by it all throughout life. You might say that the mind and body of a vampire "ages" more quickly than other people as a result of this greater impact that our environment has on us. As all people age, so do their abilities decrease. It is my belief that this happens to us also but more likely sooner because of our greater sensitivities to the stresses throughout our lives. Perhaps we as people with vampirism, as we get older like that of older people, slow down our activities and "retire" or "retreat" away from public involvement and interaction.

For me while in my forties, I noticed a decreased ability to focus on abilities and techniques learned as coping strategies earlier in my life. I sensed that I was not as sharp now nor as quick with filtering and shielding techniques, important abilities needed in processing wanted energies. Attention to needs is greater now with more time devoted and needed to successful energy manipulation for successful feedings. Now that I am fifty years old, I have had to change much of how I seek out energies and assimilate them. Alternatives have proven to be more important now when an energy source proves to be more difficult to find or more difficult to process. Instead of prana energies being available, I have had to focus on elemental and some psychic sources. Empathic abilities are not as sharp now making filtering emotional feeding more difficult. All of these changes have caused me to become more aware of my weaknesses in adapting to my environment. Relationships with family and friends have also been affected to a degree making them more difficult to maintain in a more harmonious way.

I have found that as a real vampire ages, like any other abilities and learned strategies, those for real vampirism do become more difficult to manage and use. This in turn impacts the person and results in difficulty in managing one's health and one's relationships. Such changes warrant a person to change energy sources and alternatives that may be easier to access and manage. This may even result in the need to remove oneself from the effects other people and other things in our environment have on us. Shielding ourselves from unwanted energies is affected with age like all abilities. It is important to note that all people who get older adjust their lives with regards to our environments, it is even more important for people with vampirism to do so

Damien Daville

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