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I doubt that annoyance is considered very high-grade food by the emotional vampires. You are not providing them with a banquet, that's for sure.

Amazing, isn't it, what a change in our own outlook can do to the environment?

I'm remiinded of an old Taoist story about a farmer whose favorite axe disappeared. He suspected the teenage son of his neighbor, and when he saw the boy he could tell that the boy was acting guilty. A few days later the farmer found his axe; he had forgotten it behind a tree in the woods. The next time he saw the boy, the boy didn't seem to be acting guilty any more.