Why Do You Want to be a Vampire?
Here at Vampires.com we have a lot, and I mean A LOT, of people leaving comments begging someone to turn them into a vampire. It’s an everyday thing and honestly, I usually just ignore these hundreds of requests. But while reading the latest ones it started to get me thinking – why? Why do you want to be a vampire? Why do you want it so badly that you’d beg every single day for someone to turn you?
Don’t get me wrong, I love vampires too, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t. I mean, I guarantee my vampire book collection would rival anyone else’s. So yes, I see the appeal, I understand the fascination for these undead creatures of the night. But if you sit down, and genuinely put some thought into it, can you tell me why being a vampire would be so fantastic? Because after serious consideration, I just don’t see it.
So to get a better understanding, I went back through and read the comments left by readers who want to be a vampire and one thing that I read over and over again is, “I’m not happy as a human, I want to be a vampire!” Ok, please tell me how being a vampire will suddenly make you happy? Have you ever heard of a happy vampire? In all the books, shows and movie you watch, how often are the vampires happy? 9 times out of 10 they are all dark and brooding, drowning in self-pity and barely functioning. Lestat, Angel, Edward, Damon… and on and on, they’re all miserable and hate what they are. All of them crave their humanity; they miss it and hate the monster they have become. So where are you guys getting the idea that being a vampire will make you happier?
The second comment that was repeated many times was, “Please turn me! Being human is boring!” Uh, becoming an immortal will change that how? It reminds me of a quote by Susan Ertz: “Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” If you’re bored with the short time you have as a mortal, how will eternity fix that? Yeah, it doesn’t make sense, does it?
Now, I am not completely oblivious, I can see where being a vampire would kickass. You’ve got power, lots of power, and who doesn’t want that? You also have a certain freedom that humans don’t have. But really, when you think about it, the negatives greatly outweigh the positives.
Before I end this I have one more question for the wannabe vamps – what breed of vampire do you think you will turn into? Will you be like the vampires in Twilight, like the vampires in Anne Rice’s novels, the vampires of True Blood, the vamps in The Vampire Diaries? If vampires are in fact real, how do you know that they are like the pretty and powerful vamps in your favorite books and shows? You don’t know. Do you want to turn into a vampire like the one pictured above? Because they could very well be disgusting monsters and not the beautiful immortals created in the imaginations of writers. Keep that in mind.
- Moonlight
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so true …
I think u have to look at both sides bc there r plenty of human monsters. I think vamps r awsome but it would have to b thought through is what your giving up a much as what your getting? Brandy
man moonlight is right i got friends wanting to be a vampire but who knows if they are out there. Vampires are my favorite but i don’t want to be a monster like that. how many dumb people out there that what to become this?;]
That’s true because i am already one and I have the touch of death people complain of how cold my skin is so I just tell them i’m anemic….. When I go out I don’t have to worry about wearing a coat and my mom yells at me about it but hey I’m immortal…
beautiful
well…people want to become vampires to experience something /more/. they want their adversaries to bow to them in fear. to do anything. be anyone. as a vampire novelist, i look for why someone is searching for what they want. for example, say you were a vampire looking for a way out of immortality.not only a vampire, but a vampire leader, who was also a magician in life. but, how far would they go to get what they want? would they give up their lives? in my books, when a vampire becomes human, they age however many years they were a vampire. so would a vampire be willing to test death to become human? switch this around, and you know why humans would like to be a vampire. they would give everything to become something /more/. just think about that.
being a vampire would be cool. and being that strange thing above is far from what i imagined. and its far from what i am. i love being the strange outcast me and all the people i hang with dont have a problem with it. what if i were to just change. what would happen to them? would they be happier or would they miss me. think about it. would u want to give up everything you love and watch all of the people u ever cared about shrivle up and die one by one. give it some thought…with all of my heart i like being me. and i dont want to change that…do you?
Sure, I would like to know exactly what true vampires are before asking to become one! But as long as they’re not decomposing zombies nor stinking brainless monsters, I can still think of at least two reasons why I would probably not say no if presented with an opportunity to join the club…
First: time. I really enjoy sitting all day long with a book, lost in my thoughts. But in real life, it truly means I work 7 days a week to get my literature PhD – finding money for the food and rent, writing papers for conferences, working part time at the University, etc. I would love to have a chance to get bored on a Sunday afternoon once in a while. Second: time (again). Life is fun, I’ve enjoyed the run so far, but it’s starting to look like I won’t die of old age. I have health problems (genetic dysfunction, decreasing quality of life, blah blah blah) which are getting harder and harder to ignore. Bottom line: I have great friends, a loving family and a nice academic network, but I would rather loose them than loose it all.
I’m a fairly rational person. I know that vampires probably don’t exist and that I will never have my chance at immortality. But deep inside, it’s nice to keep on dreaming… Otherwise, the whole mortality/lack of time thing really makes no sense – and that’s annoying, to say the least.
(Also, I’m French Canadian, so sorry for the silly grammar…)
Well,that is true and that is almost exactly how i feel.
Yes, I see all over the internet people asking to be turned into a vampire. Part of me thinks it would be nice to be a vampire. The upside is giving up human responsibilities. I acept I will never get to experience everything in human life and being a vampire would be a new experience. However, you rightly point out that there are cons too which outweigh the pros. And thank you for pointing out people asking on the internet to be turned may be asking to be turned into a blood thirsty beast. The demon image of vampires in rarely used in books, tv, and movies (30 Days and Nights being one exception to that rule). Hopefuly if vampires exist they are more traditional and not like the current twilght ones, or beastly animal ones. I am hopeing they are like the vampires such as Eli, Abby, ect.
Moonlight,
Okay I do have all right life, I had awesome life, but now I have to work 60 Hrs a week just to pay bills but yeah i should be happy I am alive and kicking, but doesn`t matter if you Human or Vampire, pain and joy will always fill your heart if it beats or not.
Yes you do have a point, but what ever you turn out to be either vampire such as Edward , Lestat or True Blood Characters, wouldn`t you or anyone here wanted the power to change world for better?be a hero? Feed of criminals, pedophiles,murderers ,gangs ass@$#%s etcetra who are killing/harming innocent for their own joy? who would not wanted to be the dream vampire who can travel around the world, visit every centimeter of our wonderful planet without fear of being kidnapped, murdered, raped, lied etc….., Who would not wanted to have the time to read billions of brilliant books, break the rules of physics???
You didn’t get the meaning of the bottom paragraph, you may not have that power to be a hero or any of that. Theses powerful vamps with amazing abilities come from fiction, they come from the minds of writers. If you are turned into a vampire, what makes you think you’d be like them? That doesn’t make sense at all. The vampires in history and folklore are mindless bloodthirsty monsters, not articulate and gorgeous like the vamps on TV.
Ok such as who? Vlad aka Drakula ?
Sigh. No, Vlad wasn’t a vampire at all, he was a war hero. Bram Stoker simply used him name for his book. You can read the truth about that here.
I’m talking about actual vampire folklore here, NOT stories written by authors. Every country has their own unique vampire myths that date back hundreds and even thousands of years ago.
Take this vampire for example, it comes from Malaysian lore. Would you want to be this vampire? No.
Or do you want to be like this vampire from Brazil?
Or hey, what if you turn into this type of vampire.
I can go on and on. The point it that there are loads of vampire myths from all around the world, myths that people once believed in. Who says you won’t turn into one of those?
hey look those are monsters dont even think of being like them. i have been there before but its killing peaple!
Well,I want to be a vampire because i really want to be a part of the supernatural world.I mean really deep!!
It’s simple really-I don’t think they exist, but hypothetically speaking-people will do/give up almost anything to avoid death. Who isn’t scared of dying? Even if you think you aren’t, you are. Who wouldn’t like the get out of jail free card on that one? I know I would. We spend millions if not billions each year on research and science to prolong lives and delay death-why? Because it’s the one thing that’s inevitable, and the one thing no one wants to do. Being a vampire means not having to die, getting to live eternally, see the world as it progresses, laze around, considering infinity and beyond. Truth is, life’s hard whichever way you look at it, but most people still want to keep on living it, even if, they are technically dead.
I do agree that no one would know what exactly they would turn into, if they would even be a semblance of their former, human selves, or if they would be monsters quite literally. Most writers only focus on the sexy, alluring aspects rather than the scary possibilities. Of course, it’s not just the looks that could be scary but what if you remained the same lookwise (or were even prettier) but completely lost all sense of what it means to be human? Scary.
Would I like to be turned? Yes, but only if I knew what I was being turned into. All hypothetically speaking of course ;-)
Yeah I really truly love vampires but I dont want to be one
Are vampires are true?
How can a human became a vampire?
make me a vampira……………………
I want to be a vampire……………
why?
because they are fast,immortal,they have strong sense in smelling,also strong,and cool………………………………………..
the life of a vampire is cool………………………………..
Personally, I’m perfectly happy with being mortal. However, if I were to become one, I’d prefer to be a creature with super strength and speed, fangs, power over the elements, and the ability to read and/or manipulate the minds of mortals. Further more, I’d prefer to be a phsycic vampire (that is, one who feeds off of the souls of humans, rather than their blood), seeing as there’s less mess after your done feeding.
The reason so badly so many of you wish to have something you can never have is simple…you want your life to be more than as it is, you want it to have some meaning or to live for ever and have fun as you call it……. Well let me give you all what you want so badly to hear…we are real… i know most will read this and think , oh my this post is fake or soemthing as this yes?…let me say this i dnt care i just wanted to shut you all up, so i had to tell a secert to do this oh well….belive what you want it don’t matter to me…
i believe you ;i believe that s there is vampire and other wonderful creature .i want to live long to fulfil a lot of dreame and becaming a vampire is one of theme.i whant to descover that world full of mystery. i invite you to turne me
man all u guys r babbling about is vampires, well this may be a vampire site. but guys werewolfs are much more awsome.
i would rather be a werewolf than a vampire.
to go through a painful tranformation every full moon, while u go around and kill everything in your way.
There are the house of night twilight true blood thirst Dracula and tons more but people there is your imagination and dreams when you sleep that’s when you can be who you wanna be and Theres fanfiction.net to share what you think a vampire should be hey maybe a real vampire might show up at your door and bite you but really do you really wanna kill people and take their lives that they all have for a little while so you can live forever are you ready to pay that price for immortally. And I love vampires there were times I wanted to be one but then I rember my friends and family and how much I’d miss them think about that
acctaly i m like evryone i whant to became a vampire in the begning it was just a stupide dream. but in the last month what happned to me was incredibele i travell to my grand ma house for the feast of sacrifice it s a feast where we sacrifice a ship .there evreything began whene im closer to blood i start loking to it with desir i thought that it s just because i see so much vampire film but my desire didin t stop so i try to hold it .i thought that i m losing my minde i hold that 3 days but i could n t hold it anymore i cut my finger i was afraid but i did it whene i drink it it was just a small drop .my head got dizzy so i lie down but nothing happned my hunger toward blood stop since that day but it returbe everytime i see it im so confused now about what i did i didn t told anyone about this .i want regret if i turne to a vampire since i was a kid i really hopped from my heart to became one of theme .i m looking for happiness like everyone being a human o a vampire that doesn t matter we all live in this world looking for happiness the only defference that human are immortal .what can make theme happy is the fulfilment of theire dream but they have a short time for that but if they a vampire it s on other story i have a lot of dream beigne human won t help me to make theme true i want to stay beautiful and young forever i wont regret being alone or being unable to see sun or people i love . so please someone told me what s going on with me .
Its spring a chance of new beggings and life ring?? wrong not everyone gets that luxury, you have probarly heard lots of people saying “ohhh my life sucks so i want to be turned” no pun intended on the sucks bit, but you no what its people like the person that made this website and say that they are vampires and blah blah blah that make it even worse because you get peoples hopes up and make them think that they have any chance of being turned and they wait and wait but guess what it never happens because you are a lier; dosent it just eat a way at you that you are eating away at peoples lives? what do you think happens after they have waited for so long and there life is getting worse and worse and they finaly realise that no one is coming to help them and there life that they could of stoppped getting so bad where they can no longer do anything to stop it getting worse because you made up a lie and made them wait and hope that they had a chance at a new start well guess what they kill them selves. its not so funny now is it making people belive in you, making people belive in a lie, making me belive in a lie. The reason i wanted to be turned was for a new beginning.