I was walking home alone through the twilight streets, my mind wandering and at the same time focusing on the atmospheres around me, pondering the significance of an imposing building or silhouetted tree, when it suddenly came to me with the speed and clarity of an oncoming meteor. I know why we are so perpetually obsessed with vampires and their immortality. It’s so simple, so blaringly obvious that I really want to kick myself for the stupidity of not becoming aware of this sooner, (excuse the clichés!).
It is our desperate desire for freedom that makes immortality so appealing. Standing alone, immortality is a raw deal. Watching everyone we love die? No thanks. But the vampire’s immortality is attractive. Why?
They are outcasts with incredible strength that cannot die. Vampire’s can do everything we can’t. We are mortal; we have to work hard to build up what we have in the little time allocated us. Vampires on the other hand don’t have to follow the norm and be a part of society. They can just forget the social norms and experience the world. Don’t get a job, steal the cash. Don’t buy a plane ticket, fly there, run there. Don’t wait for love, make them immortal too. You get the picture. (Again excuse the cliché!). They can view the world in a way that we cannot, after all they have all the time in the world for every tiny experience known to man. And some that aren’t.
Vampires have the power, the strength, the FREEDOM to do whatever they want. Everything that we can’t, it's what makes them so desirable.
